Underwear stripping at doctor a thing of the past?

Do any doctors, especially pediatricians, still make all of their patients, even teenage girls, undress to their underwear with no gown for physicals or have all such doctors retired by now?

Don't know about Pediatricians, but my Primary Care Doctor had me undress to my undies for my physical exam today. Then the undies came down so he could examine my scrotum's and then do the Digital Rectal Exam, which felt So Good ! After feeling around for nearly a minute he took his finger out and said I have the prostate of a 20 year old. I am 72 . That was nice to hear.

Gowns are used in most physical exams today. I haven't been in just my underwear since the late 80s. It's the modesty issue today.

No idea what my doctors do about female patients but I have been in my underwear only for more physicals through the years than not. My current doc is a younger guy and same thing there. The nurse tells me to strip to my underwear and have a seat on the table to wait for the doctor. I doubt that he has female patients do that. I assumed that male patients like me are required to be in their underwear only for physicals and that female patients get a gown.

As a young girl in the 90s and a teenager in the early 2000s, my middle aged male pediatrician required me to be in undies until perhaps age 12, when I could leave my shirt on until it was time for him to examine my developing breasts. So embarrassing!!

My doctor has his male patients strip completely and put on exam shorts, one size, XL. From the first, I put them back in the drawer and undressed to tighty whities, which, of course, are comparable.

Never had a gown. Offered it once but I said not to worry, was more comfortable in my underwear.

The last few times I've had a physical have been in the summer so I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts. The doctor or PA has just had me take off my socks, shoes, and t-shirt for most of the physical and then just drop my shorts and underwear when it came time to do the hernia check, etc. I am curious whether if I went during colder weather and thus had long pants on whether they'd have been strip down to my underwear or what.

The only time I was offered a gown was when I had a skin exam at the dermatologist--I didn't really see the need and the nurse did say that most men don't take one.

I have never had a gown. I have always been asked to undress down to my underwear.

I'm 22 and my pediatrician still works 😃

When he visited me for fever, flu or anything like this, he never asked me to disrobe: he just put the stethoscope under my shirt.

Once a year, I had a general check-up: I was asked just once to get undressed to my underwear (I was 10, more or less, so I suppose it was to verify if I was "ready for my periods", because he took a quick look at my breasts and palpated my ovaries).

I don't know about today, but my pediatrician had my sisters and I undress to our underwear till we were 18. Even though I wasn't in the room with them, at least after the age of 13, I can remember them complaining about it. This was back in the 70's however. For my own children, two boys and a girl who are adults now, they too undressed to their underpants at least for a physical. That was the late 90's early 2000's.

My pediatrician always had me in just my panties, no gown. I have heard that in the last few years he has started using gowns. I guess the times are changing. My doctor now has me in a gown with nothing on under it.

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, if I was wore anything at all during a physical with my pediatrician, it was underwear at the most. Patient modesty was not the concern then that it is now.

I'm always naked. No patient modesty

My kids pediatrician always had them undress to just underpants. But that was about 15 years ago.

I would guess that Baby Boomer doctors (mid-50s up) are the last pediatricians to widely perform the no gown method stripped to underwear while GenX doctors (late 30s to early 50s) are the last to widely use the gown method as pediatricians. Emerging Millennial doctors are even scrapping out gowns for minimally invasive exams even in pediatrics.

As with most things differences in countries do exist when it comes to the use of gowns. In the UK its common in the GP surgeries for patients to remove clothing as required for an examination to be performed . Patients are not offered gowns.

In A&E patients are asked to change into gowns before exams are performed, but the days of stripping down to underwear are long gone. In the 60's, 70's and early 80's it was common for women to be completely naked, only covered by a white sheet for all gynaecological or well women exams.

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I do indeed notice somewhat of a difference in UK medical practice from watching Doc Martin. It seems that he doesn't often see patients for non-sick visits and usually performs the exams with necessary procedures in certain situations to save a patient. If you haven't watched this show, I sure recommend it and it is great.

So, do pediatricians have child-size gowns, or do the child patients have to wear adult-size gowns, where this is/was done?

I never saw a gown until I was about 17.

48 years old here, but NEVER had a gown until i was 34 or 35. Pediatrician and then family doctor -- I always had to strip to just my underwear.

I had a private exam last year where I was very surprised to be asked first to undress to my underwear and then after the exam to remove my underwear behind a curtain, sit on the bed waiting for the doctor and telling him when I was ready.

Here in the states it looks to me like Obamacare made them all retire. Mine always had me sit there naked for the annual physical. I assumed it was so he could look me over well for any problems. He hit me with his rubber hammer, listened carefully to me breathe, front and back, and tickled my feet with a feather. Since 2014 when O-care took over I have never been naked but I also have never had a real physical exam nor a finger wave. It's more like a quick touch with the stethoscope and "get out". Apparently being able to walk, sit & get up, talk and breathe at the same time is a good indication that I have nothing wrong. If I have anything bothering me I need to be able to describe it well so she can choose the correct specialist(s) to send me to. That would be the ones who don't accept Medicare or Medicare refuses to pay.

I came into this world at a time when you only saw a doctor if you thought you were sick enough to die and it looks like I'm going out the same way. Why in Hell was I forced to pay for old people's insurance for 45 years when I don't get anything for it now that I'm one of them?

There are still a few that do exams in underwear. I took my daughter the other day and the pediatrician had her undress to her underwear.

I always strip down to my underwear with no gown when I go for my phyiscal

As a boy I was always required to undress to my shorts and those cane off eventually. My daughters undressed to underpants.

I am always asked to get completely nude except for my socks and put on the Johnny. I just tie it at the neck.

In reply to roscoe, I find your response totally irrational and illogical as I fail to understand how Obamacare, or the affordable care act, has anything to do with the way medicine is practiced. Different doctors have been performing varying styles of physicals long before most people even ever heard the name Barack Obama and I have never heard any reports about Obamacare being enacted to enforce modesty at physicals and I doubt that Obama ever even gave a s**t about how certain doctors practiced and who they were. When it comes to doctors you thought all retired, it would mean that we would have lost like half of all primary care doctors in a short period of time unless they moved to a knew practice and reformed their ways of examining patients.

To this day (59 years old), 95% of my physical exams have been conducted while I was underwear clad only. During the other examinations, I have been completely naked with a gown on. I only recall one exam when I was instructed to keep my underwear on while donning an exam gown. I always prefer the exams when I am underwear clad only. Sitting on the exam table ... waiting for the doctor to enter ... while wearing underwear only leaves me feeling exposed, excited, and vulnerable. Knowing that any arousal ... penis enlargement or the exposure of precum ... will be immediately identified by the doctor, adds to the intensity of every exam.

Thank you JoeSag87.. couldn't agree with you more.

I agree with Roscoe, since about the time Obama care took over I have been fully dressed for all physicals and just rushed out.

Had a Dr tell me I was a healthy young man at the onset of a physical a couple years ago, prior to any interaction. I thought "why, cuz I'm not complaining?"

My last good going over was in '07.