Keeping your shoes on during most of an exam.

Has anyone here ever done this, until it's time to check your feet specifically? I often wonder about this since standing barefoot on an exam room, hallway, or gymnasium floor seems a bit unsanitary. Especially during a group physical when you're around a bunch of other barefoot folks with unknown hygiene habits.

Socks okay, but shoes no. Undressing your pants with shoes on is difficult

Most of my exams, I've remained clothed and just dropped my pants when the time came. So yes, I've had many exams with my shoes on. However, I'm assuming the question is intended to mean undressed with just your shoes on. That, I have never experienced. I think I would feel really weird like that.

Getting a sports physical for basketball one time, it was warm and I had short pants on. I just took the short pants off right over my shoes & socks (regular jeans or trousers wouldn't work that way) leaving me in only my shoes, socks, & briefs. I'm pretty certain it was the Doctor who told me eventually to strip the briefs as well, which I also pulled off over shoes. I remember very specifically, standing there naked with shoes & socks on felt a lot MORE naked than if the shoes/socks had also been off. Weird how that worked.

Additionally, I vaguely remember that the Doc looked at me, nude in shoes & socks, & got a funny smirk on his face, and may have even chuckled a bit.

Prior to entering the Navy at 18, it was stripped to underwear and briefs, usually with socks. Most exams I have had in the Navy were either in stocking feet, or sometimes barefoot (Foot health is a major big deal in the military) while stripped to briefs, and occasionally nude. Both prior to and while in the Navy, we didn't use gowns. When I went to the VA, it was mostly strip as you go, so I have had exams there in both stocking feet and with shoes on. My current doctor has me strip to underwear and a gown, with socks on unless she has to check my feet.

As a matter of fact yes, the practice I went to most often around age 11-17 would never really tell me to take anything off, even shoes. I distinctly remember the pediatrician untying and pulling them off me with my socks as well as the last part of the supine exam to take a Quick Look at my feet.

Growing up and until about 30 years old, it was always the same thing: Nurse walked you back to the exam room and it varied with a scale either in the room or in a hallway. I would always be asked to take my shoes off if this was in the hallway. If the scale was in the room, she would do temp, bp and then tell me to strip to my underwear and the doc would be in shortly.

The doc did the height/weight with me in my underwear.

After 30, I would make the appointments in warmer months so I would only wear sandals or sneakers without socks. I do not like wearing socks so for my the "bare foot" issues are not a problem.

As a child going to the pediatrician, I remember well being told "everything off but your underwear!" What is odd is that I do not remember keeping my socks on or off. Up to about 12 years old, my pediatrician had one scale in the hall outside of the exam rooms. I was always to undress first and was then marched (and I do mean marched) out to the hall to be weighed. Since I do not remember standing on a cold floor or the cold metal footplate on the scale, I must have kept my socks on. The shoes had to come off, else how would I take off my jeans?

I had a pre-employment physical in my mid-20s. In that office the scale was in a semi-public alcove off the main hall of exam rooms. The nurse directed me there first and I had to remove my shoes to be weighed and have my height measured. I had to slip them off to get on the scale and she had me pick them up and carry them into the exam room. She then told me to take off everything but my underwear, including the socks (as an aside, that nurse was a the mother of a good high school friend. I sat in the exam room thinking she would come back, but a different nurse assisted during the exam. That was a relief because I did end up naked for the last half of the exam).

In the last 20 years, I cannot remember having to remove my shoes even to be weighed. When I have had physicals during the summer months, I have worn sandals that I could kick off quickly if needed.

Today I kept my shoes on the entire appointment although I did have my shirt off and had to pull down my pants and underwear for a genital exam

Today I kept my shoes on the entire appointment although I did have my shirt off and had to pull down my pants and underwear for a genital exam

By today's current standards and protocols, that sounds about right.

I have kept my shoes on through my exams other than getting onto the scale. The only exceptions were for foot related complaints specifically

With my old family doctor, I kept my shoes even on the scale. Never had to remove my pants entirely, even for a genitalia check. I just dropped my pants and lie on the exam table.

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Well, there are many cultures that generally go around barefoot. Besides, then you wouldn't be allowed to go barefoot on any beach or swimming pool....

When I was growing up they made me take everything off but underwear, so shoes came off

I have never kept my shoes on for a physical exam but for other exams yes. However it was probably the most sensible thing my step mother told me was to leave my socks on during exams while stripping to my underwear because the doctors office floor was covered with germs so since then I have always kept my socks on and rarely have my feet been examined except by my dermatologist and she removes a sock looks at my foot then does the same on the other foot.

When I was younger I would remove my socks, but now the only time they come off is when I see my dermatologist. That's when everything comes off and I wearing a gown.

So my last few physicals, they usually even weigh be with shoes, unless they use one of those bioimpedance scales, at which point they ask you to take off shoes and socks. I do have my derm exam this next week, so that should be everything.