State of dress during auscultation

I'm always auscultated with a bare chest. I either lower my gown or take off my bra.

I've had it bare chested and over a shirt or gown.

With my bra on. I've been asked to just lift my shirt and sometimes asked to take it off

After reading many of these posts, I remembered when I had bronchitis. I've never smoked so I don't know the cause.

I don't remember what the doctor prescribed but I do remember he didn't auscultate me topless.

If I have to go to urgent care for something, it’s either over my shirt or they slip it up and under my shirt. For my regular doctor and Obgyn-always fully topless with a paper gown that covers nothing. They just move it out of the way when they need to listen.

My PCP always listens to my heart, lungs, and bowels with her stethoscope on my bare skin, while I'm undressed from the waist up, which is how I prefer it. I won't return to a provider who insists on auscultating my heart and lungs over my shirt, but then has me expose my abdomen for bowel auscultation.

Here it's a general practice to do it over clothes. For adults atleast

Any clothing in particular a bra will somewhat restrict full deep breaths. All clothing should be removed for this procedure.

Any clothing in particular a bra will somewhat restrict full deep breaths. All clothing should be removed for this procedure.

Maybe one day I'll get the nerve to ask my doctors why they always auscultate me over my clothes or over a gown.

My last time (early November 2022) it was done over my shirt, she listened to my heart, lungs, and bowel that way. Before then I had a semi-physical for a factory job and it was done under my shirt but with it still on. Before that was my separation physical from the Navy and I took my shirt off.

@CassieST you just need to find the nerve to do what I do and just remove your top without being asked when they say they want to listen to you.

@CassieST you just need to find the nerve to do what I do and just remove your top without being asked when they say they want to listen to you.

Amen to that!

I don't why most healthcare providers these days, especially in the US, are afraid of examining and auscultating a naked human torso.

I offer to lift or remove my shirt, and if the provider detests, that will be my last time seeing them.

It dépends on the purpose. If i an in for a physical., i an normally topless, and if gowned, the gowm Is often dropped, becoming a lap cover.

Sick calls are often done over shirt, or under top and over under shirt.

In fact, he should be without clothes, since the rustling of the fabric will interfere with catching sounds. And in the game of doctor, I prefer to start listening to a girl when she is wearing a tank top with straps, shorts or another option, jeans. Probably in her underwear. Because when listening carefully to the game, I get real pleasure when I listen to a girl in clothes, and then ask her to lift up her T-shirt.

Bare chested same for my patients

Women should always be auscultated without a blouse or bra. A girl should always be undressed to the waist during a medical examination. No bra.

During every medical examination (whether at the pediatrician or the internist), I was auscultated without a shirt. I think that auscultation through clothing can disrupt the detection of various cardiovascular or respiratory problems when they begins.

When my wife and I go it is over our clothes

SHIRTLESS AT LEAST

Women are also required to be bare-chested for heart and lung examinations

Women should be bare chested with easy access for examination

As I already answered in another thread, in Italy at the GP they usually auscultate by having you lift your shirt, but at the cardiologist, men and women are bare-chested.

I went yesterday and it was done without my shirt on. That's the norm for me and it has been done that way for as long as I can remember.

I am usually in a gown for my physicals. My PCP will auscultate directly on my back, putting his steth in the opening of the gown, but usually listen to my heart over the gown. Same with my abdomen. Not my favorite, but definitely also what seems to be the norm in medicine nowadays.

I always take my shirt off for the chest (cardiac & respiratory) exam. One doctor demanded I put it back on, and I refused. Needless to say, I never went back to his office.