Reflector

Long life of a cultural icon and identifier:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/if-this-was-your-mother-doctor/?ref=health

Years ago -- years and years -- I noticed that doctors on TV and in commercials and ads were still wearing those reflectors on their heads whose utility must have ended sometime in the 1950s (a guess) -- but which continued to be worn by fake doctors as easy recognition.  It finally lapsed and vanished except in jokes, but here it is again.  I wonder how many young people recognize it.