Does the doctor watch you undress?

My pediatrician, I have to strip down to my panties and then, in the end of the exam, he ask me to remove it.

Mine always is out of the room. The nurse asks me to undress and then the doctor comes in a few minutes later.

I always undress in the same room after a discussion with the doctor. He can watch me, but I don't know if he does it, I don't pay attention to it. I think I turn my back automatically as I put my clothes on a chair. An exception is with the urologist; I lower my pants and underwear in front of him before lying down on the examination table.

I never had a doctor watch me undress for the initial part. It was always undress to your underwear. However. My pediatrician would undress me at checkups when it came to my genital exams regardless of age. I saw him from birth to 15 and if I had clothes on for a checkup he'd undo my pants pull my underwear down for me and check my foreskin. There was one exam at 13 where I thought the exam was done so I started to pull up my briefs when I was told to get off the exam table and he said to just take them off since he had seen everything. So for that exam he watched me remove my underwear but at the same time considering he normally pulled them down for me it wasn't any thing special. The family doctor I had at 15-16 would pull them down for me as well. The general practitioner doctor I got at 18 was the first to ask me to pull my underwear down.

I prefer to watch my patients undress. It is to the observe their coordination and see if there might be an issue that they won’t mention or may not even realize.

I once had a patient who came in for a checkup, she was complaining of feeling “off” (her words). I left the room for her to undress to her panties and she collapsed while undressing. She was suffering from low blood sugar; after that I decided to stay in the room.

I was watched undressing only in cases where I was visiting my GP with a specific complaint only removing articles of clothing necessary for the examination. In the hospital two door cubicles are used, one coming from the waiting area, the other giving entrance to the exam room.

I can’t recall a doctor ever watching me completely undress. I can recall being dressed from the waist down and then having them watch as I undid my pants and pulled everything down.

I also remember at the pediatricians I would undress to my underwear while my step mother and the nurse talked about a number of things and I would hand my clothes to my step mother and they would be folded neatly on her lap. Then the nurse would take my vital signs and height and weight.

My doctor leaves the room, and I get undressed at the start of the exam. Sometimes, when the exam is done, my doctor will stay in the room and talk to me while I get dressed at the end.

Yes I pull down my trousers and knickers in front of her so she can see my vulva if she looks both before my test, and when I climb down after it with my vulva now splayed.

For X-rays and a VCUG as a small child my bottom half clothing was removed many times in a prep room by a nurse as I removed my top half. I found that really awkward especially since I could undress and dress myself. Everything was rushed. I had to stand naked without covering my genitals with my hands before the closed X-ray room door waiting for it to be opened, hearing the noises beyond. I think there was a fear you would cover up on the X-ray table when the camera was in action.

As a 12 year old I was led into a narrow empty wallpapered and carpeted room by a female doctor for a genital exam. Told to go to the back wall, turn around and face her feet apart. Then told to take my trousers down to my knees “and your underwear” as she watched.

At 15 during a school medical where I sitting face to face with a doctor. She ordered me to slacken my trousers whilst watching then said “I will tell you when they are slack enough” which she did.

As an adult I have had a doctor watch me open and pull down my trousers then boxers as I stood.

I’ve never been naked in front of a doctor where I have had to remove all my clothes myself before the doctor.

Only during my freshman year physical was I required to undress in front of the school doctor. I was told to strip completely naked, and the entire exam was conducted that way. The same was required of all the women in my class. Maybe he was old school, but most people thought he was a perv. They retired him that year.

More recently, with a female physician, I was asked to remove my pants and underwear for the genital and rectal exams and she remained in the room.

My detailed post didn't post. I was watched several times at the same medical office. The first time, I was a new patient, there for a physical exam. After answering questions, which ended up on an index card, I was taken through to the only exam room, and told to undress to my underwear. The doctor watched because he was impatient. He was the only person there, did the entire exam himself, which included an EKG, and rigid sigmoidoscopy.

A new doctor straight out of his residency also watched me undress in the same office. This time I took off my underwear from the start. He wasn't impatient. He had no other patients.

I was watched a third time when I returned because the new doctor didn't know how to do an EKG, and sigmoidoscopy, perhaps because the equipment was old.

The only time I can remember being watched undressing was my last pediatricians visit. It was at home when doctors still made house calls. And Mom was there too. Every physical since then, it was always alone. Physicians assistant would grab a gown and say "everything off or everything off except underwear" and leave the room.

Never. Not professional in my view.

I have never been asked to remove my clothes in front of a doctor, but spent many visits sitting on a table in a freezing exam room wearing my white briefs waiting for him. One good thing about the doctor coming in first and then asking you to undress is that it minimizes the chance of other patients walking by your exam room when the doctor flings open the door to come in. My youthful experiences may be unique, but at one pediatrician's office I would be marched down the hall in my undies to be weighed and measured. Once I was marched down the hall to the bathroom so the doc could observe me pee (he thought my meatus looked to narrow). At another exam when I was a teen I seem to remember the doc looking for something - maybe a tongue depressor - and 'popping' out to quickly grab one. He pulled the door behind him but without enough force and it did not latch, only to swing back quite quickly into an almost-open position. Of course I was not about to hop off the table to close the door, but nurses were walking by outside.

Of course, there is a different between the doc being in the room with you (perhaps looking at your records) while you undress, and watching you undress. On the other hand, there was a thread someone wrote about being sent for a urine drug test and being asked to remove his shirt completely and drop his pants and undies so the medical personnel could observe him giving his sample - I assume the clothing removal was done under complete observation, so make sure no 'outside' urine was brought in.