Very nice older thorough exam video

Absolutely amazing detailed physical exam on a woman. Looks to be older

https://youtu.be/mi4fviqK-I8

The examiner is using the original Littmann Cardiology stethoscope, so it's probably from the 1980s.

Very nice find. Thanks for sharing . These serious educational videos are the best.

She did nice chest auscultation too. It was careful , bug did not undress patient

I love the complete thoroughness of the exam. Nothing unchecked. All the way down to babinski!

Great video.

I am not medically qualified to question the medical itself, but in real exams in the States, would a women in a bra be offered a towel/covering so she can cover herself. Over in the UK, you would never be offered a covering or even expect one.

@SouthernAnn yes most doctors in the states keep you covered with a gown or sheet until it’s time to exam that specific area.

like when I go I’m asked to leave my underwear and socks on. Then I put the gown on. Then she will open the gown to look at my back, check breathin, check my stomach. Then covers me back up. She’ll take my socks off to check my pulses and cap refill and babinski reflex.

then lastly I have to stand up drop my underwear. Lift the gown to my waist and she checks for hernia.

Thanks @BlueTacoma86

Does anyone know why the Americans have adopted the gown more than most of the world.

When I worked in a care home, I spoke to the residents and it must be said that UK citizens do not seem as adventitious as the Europeans when it comes to showing their bodies. If they were alive today most would have been 110+ so we are going back a long way and they said that nudity in the doctors room was fairly common which some found very embarrassing as that was the time when their husband only saw them naked on their wedding night and that was not a given. I have a friend that was married for 34 years and she is proud that her husband never saw her naked, or even topless.

… Does anyone know why the Americans have adopted the gown more than most of the world…

The short and simple answer is religion. The three major religions that claim Yahweh as their deity (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) live with the same basic belief that humans are sinful, so their bodies are shameful and must not be displayed. They also believe women must be protected by men from men, so female bodies must not be displayed. And that men are tempted by women, so female bodies must not be put on display.

Although Europe is primarily Christian many of the belief's and practices of religions in place when Christianity took hold are still embraced by Europeans, which explains why they are less inclined towards body modesty than Americans. Most original North American immigrants were “hardcore Christians" who pretty much wanted their religion to control everything they did as well as what everyone else did, and since it easier to teach children they are evil rather than that they should love their neighbor, it is easy to see the results even in seemingly innocuous daily interactions.

Good question @SouthernAnn and I wish I knew, as I have long wondered as I have been lucky enough to have worked around the world and except for a rare, few occasions never been offered a gown other than in an hospital and that was to walk around the hospital.

When I went for my first physical in the States I was given a gown, told to completely strip and I dutifully put it on. The second time I did not bother and the nurse was most insistent even I told her that the dr would be seeing “my bits” anyway when she examined me, so what was the point of the gown. Once my wife and I were booked in to have our physicals after each other and the nurse was quite put out that each of us would be present at each others physical.

Compare that with when I worked over on the continent. There a lot of countries demand a visa and part of the process is to have a chest x-ray and a medical. As a family we went along to the local hospital for the x-ray. We were shown into a waiting room which has 3 or 4 topless people waiting sat on chairs and told to strip to the waist. Coming from a more conservative background my wife and daughter questioned the request seeing that there were others in the room, and the nurse confirmed the request so we all took our tops off and my teenage daughter drew the short straw as she had a summer dress on so it was knickers only, and there we sat waiting to be called. It would never have happened in the UK, but everyone seems to take the semi nudity in their stride and there was no embarrassment.

A few weeks later we all went along to see the doctor appointed to do the exam. When we got there we were shown into the doctors outer waiting room and told to undress and having got use to the countries medical system, we duly conformed. A few minutes later a couple and 2 teenage boys came out and casually got dressed whilst we waited to be called, I remember that at the time what I perceived the absurdity of chatting casually to strangers when we were all naked . When we were called in, the medicals were pretty standard and when we left the doctors there was another couple sat waiting.

Over the course of our stay, we had to repeat the medical process several times, and I loved the informality everyone took to being naked in front of each other and the municipal saunas were a joy.

Thanks for sharing @Nursekev

The one thing I have learnt about going over to the continent is that they have a totally different attitude to nudity than in the UK and probably the States.

You will probably never have to encounter their attitude, but if you do just except it. They will not be shy or embarrassed, and neither should you so just embrace it - no one will judge you .

When I had my kids, if I had to breast feed in public, I had to do somersaults to keep myself covered and after getting many dirty looks I would often retreat shame faced into the toilet. Over there, I got my boob out, everyone saw it and no one cared.

Nudity is necessary for some exams and I will the first to admit that have not visited many medical establishments, but I have spoken to a load of people that have worked over there and they have basically repeated what you have described. I know when I had a chest x-ray years ago I was told to strip to the waist in the x-ray waiting room and was escorted to the x-ray booth by a nurse. Several none medical people in the waiting room saw me topless and totally ignored me which made the process a lot more comfortable.

Fantastic stethoscope session. like that very much.

The short and simple answer is religion.

With respect, absolute twaddle. American puritanism and Islamic sharia law are the only examples of that, and they have been fundamentally rejected by not only the religious as a whole (who as you may have forgotten, until recently, was everyone) but by the individual religions they claim to be denominations of. Body shame is not only thoroughly debunked as a concept both scientifically and spiritually, it's also significantly newer than the religions people blame for it. The concept didn't exist back then, not in any form we would recognize anyhow, and we know that from even a cursory examination of life in ancient times.

Blaming it on religion is not only “I just started college and now I know everything” 101, it's downright clueless. Religion has been largely dismantled in the west, and yet nudity continues to be on the decrease, even/especially in the places it has always been acceptable, such as a doctor's office, a locker room, or in the home. You cannot tell me you think religious people are in charge of the media, the media that makes showing skin less acceptable with each passing year, and moves as far as possible from traditional values handed down by faith practices. It is the left, the screwy capital-L Left that doesn't want people seeing each other naked, because nudity is truth, and truth flies in the face of their “anything can be anything as long as we say it is and you feel like it is” narrative.

It is the left, the screwy capital-L Left that doesn't want people seeing each other naked, because nudity is truth, and truth flies in the face of their “anything can be anything as long as we say it is and you feel like it is” narrative.

Pot, meet kettle…

Being expected to sit around naked with strangers would be a surprise first time, but I'm sure I'd get used to it, I generally am just happy to do whatever is acceptable and seen as normal - it's the uncertainty and awkwardness of whether others are uncomfortable that I dislike. The sort of fumbling around with gowns and covers like in the video is something I dislike for that reason, it adds a weird tension for me. I'd probably rather just be naked or in underwear and no-one act like there is something to hide all the time.

This is excellent. Great find.

After watching this video I want two things, that may never happen -

I want this to be a part of my annual physical from now on

I want too see this patient naked

Fantastic video, love it. Back in the day, you had to strip to waist or just take off your shirt for exam. Thanks, good video.

Good cardiac and respiratory exam, love the stethoscope and abdominal stuff.

Thank you that was a great video

I love these older exam videos. The newer ones nowadays are too quick and not as detailed.

Thanks for this link. This video is very detailed and well done. Newer videos are not so nice.