I had never seen a patient with a New York Rangers legends tam player tshirt. The sister thing seems to need some explanation. In a British operating theatre the nurse in charge is called the sister. It’s her almost always female in my day rank. She is usually scrubbed and helps the surgeon. In America the nurse in charge is the circulating nurse. The person who scrubs is a scrub tech. In the American South, especially Atlanta, the scrub tech is more often than not female and black. Black women in the South often address each other as.