F-F real exam question

This is a real (not play) question for the women on the site with female physicians.

When you see a female physician for a complaint/exam that requires you to be nude below the waist, does the physician leave the room and allow you to change into a gown and/or cover with a sheet, or does she expect you to just remove your clothing there with her watching.

I would assume no male physician would be so crude as to expect you to drop your pants with him standing there watching you do it.

I want to know if a female is ever treated like a lot of we male patients, expected to drop our pants in an exam room and then shuffle around the room to different positions with our clothing around our ankles. My suspicion is that most women would not put up with that sort of treatment.

Your assumption is correct, most of us would not be thrilled by the idea of undressing in front of the doctor, male or female.

When I've been treated by a female physician, I've always been asked to disrobe and don a gown or drape before the doctor even comes into the room. The same is true of treatment by a male physician. Last week, when I saw my new internist (male), he interviewed me while I was fully dressed, then left the room and had the nurse come in to give me a paper gown for an EKG. I was able to leave my slacks, etc on. After she had performed the EKG, he came back in the room and did the physical exam.

I have been treated by female physicians, but I prefer a male doctor.

LadyDoc

My real life female Gynecologist has her office in a 1920 Craftsman style house. The receptionist is her only staff and the check-in desk is in the middle of the former front room. In the winter the brick fireplace has a roaring fire, which makes everything nice and cozy. There is no nurse on staff.

You proceed into the tiled bathroom and weigh yourself. Then, you report the results back to the Doctor. Next, you proceed to the bedroom/exam room where she allows you to privately disrobe and put on a cotton exam gown. Since she only has two exam rooms, she returns quickly and your exam continues.

Now for play Docs, some of them have had me disrobe in private and slip into an exam gown, while others, well (blushes) have had me disrobe... 😉 .

Lady Teddy

You are correct, I have always disrobed in private.

I like to pull up and pull down as I need to during examination but when I must take off clothes one at a time I do it in front of doctors or nurses.

Well, I was interested in what the medical folks (specifically the MD) expected you to do, not what the patient wanted, but thanks anyway, LilAngelErica.

Thanks for the info, everyone. I am going to write a polite but firm letter suggesting that they may wish to extend this sort of courtesy to their male patients just like they do their female ones...they could at least ask.

I'm not hyper-modest in "real life"--indeed, there was an incident once where I finally invited a pre-op nurse to "come behind the curtain" when I was changing into a gown for a procedure because trying to keep me modest when I would be totally exposed to a dozen people in 15 minutes anyway seemed silly; they were running so late (45 minutes and I was the first patient) that she was trying to do a H&P while I changed behind the curtain. I finally told her to just come in and she could take vitals while I changed. But that's another story.

But anyway, this was a bad experience because of the way the physician dealt with some things; he did not mean to upset me, but the way he handled things left me really embarrassed and rather insecure about some of my medical problems...enough that, even though this is not my fault, I may not be able to ever go back there again and have to find a new physician for this specialty.

When my doc (lady) wants to do a genital check, she just asks me to drop my pants and thats all there is to it. No leaving the room, no gown or any of that. It is just matter of fact - over and done with in short order. No big deal. Actually I like her attitude and she is very thorough and always asks if I remember how to do it myself. She instructed me a few years ago.