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I'll have to pay attention.

Veterinarians don't seem to have any color code, that I know of. Many don't use crosses (they tend to have cutsey animals).

The hospital near where I live has a blue cross at its emergency entrance, and a nearby urgent care clinic also has a blue cross, however, another nearby urgent care facility has a red cross.

I don't know of any pharmacies that have any prominent cross displays. They tend to have their own branding (which may or may not have a cross integrated).



Interesting, as here (France and Belgium) only pharmacies consistently display a green cross. All of them do, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was a legal requirement. It's not as consistent for the other medical facilities, but I'm pretty sure that at the minimum they never use the "wrong" colour.

I don't know where this usage comes from (and can't really look it up now) but now that I think of it "the Red Cross" is a doctors organisation, so it fits the scheme I told about.


I can add two more examples: Italian pharmacies (at least all that I've seen) use a green cross, while German pharmacies use a stylized A letter.

Wikipedia has a couple of symbols if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy#Symbols




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