Unnecessary nudity

Agracier,

That implies that removing a shirt or dropping jeans and shorts takes a lot of time. It doesn’t. Whether healthcare is socialized or private is irrelevant. Doctors are but humans and should treat their patients as such. I have been in both the clothed and unclothed situation. The doctors spent the same total amount of time with me.

Humans are not emotionless machines. We all deserve respect, even the doctor.

Humans are not emotionless machines. We all deserve respect, even the doctor.

A lot of these people here grew up when children were treated as objects and lesser, a time with misinformation like “children don't feel pain/as much” and whatnot. So it seems normal to not be treated with basic decency I guess. …also that medical fetish where part of the appeal is being treated as such, I guess? Applies to me but I'd really rather not have everyone dehumanized completely by every step of the actual real life medical system. Enough systems already do that.

@arika I definitely grew up at a time when it was believed that the less a child knew about what was going to happen in a medical setting (examination, surgery…), the better.

As the years go by they DO seem to treat us better and control pain better. I hear they even give something so the baby won't feel his foreskin leaving instead of just saying he won't remember it. It does leave me wondering why my doctor seems to feel that having me uncovered so she can actually look at a rash next to my scrotum is not proper. When I took the initiative and dropped my pants so she could look at it she did but later thanked me for showing it to her. Like she was a little girl and I was a little boy showing her what was in my pants.

@roscoe Right, I'm told they no longer circumcise newborns or infants without anesthesia under the false pretense they don't feel anything / won't remember it.

@roscoe Right, I'm told they no longer circumcise newborns or infants without anesthesia under the false pretense they don't feel anything / won't remember it.

What??????? No more duct tape for anesthesia.

I guess I and everyone else I have talked to went to the wrong doctor. None of us have ever experienced a totally nude examination. I wonder if it was/is a generational, geographical, or personal preference on behalf of the doctor. I think it sounds pretty exciting. I was brought up to accept our bodies and nudity was just part of our existence.

I had one GP about 15 years ago who always seemed to prefer me nude for my annual exam. At my first appointment the nurse who took me back reviewed my paper work, took my vitals, weighed me and the told me to get completely undressed, to include socks, underwear, and my watch - that the doctor wanted to do a head to toe exam. She then handed me a folded up sheet and told me to cover myself once I was undressed and the doctor would be in shortly. So I sat on the paper on the exam table with the sheet partially unfolded in my lap.

When the doc came in he engaged in a little small talk and then went through my history and asked some questions. He was in his mid-to-late thirties, short dark hair with a runner's physique. When he commenced the exam he had me turn and lean back on the table (which was at about a 45 degree angle) and started by looking in my ears, eyes, and throat. He then felt the lymph nodes under my jaw and then listened to my heart and breath sounds, having me sit up when appropriate. He then lowered the table and did an abdominal exam pressing on my organs and did some percussion as well. I remember that he used his stethoscope to listen to my gut, pushing the sheet down to about the top on my pubic hair. All the time he was asking questions - some medical and some personal - where did I work / what did I do, did I smoke / how much did I drink / what did I do for exercise / how many sexual partners have I had / did I eat a balanced diet / when was the last time I had unprotected sex / who did i think would win the football game Sunday….

After listening to my gut sounds he said that he was going to check my femoral artery and do a genital exam. With that he pulled the sheet off and dropped it on the floor. I remember his fingers pressing into my abdomen over my bladder and on my pubic bone. He then squeezed and rolled my penis between his thumb and index finger from the base to the tip, ending by briefly pinching my uthera open (the entire penile exam took maybe 10-15 seconds. Then he used his stethoscope to listen to my femoral arteries and checked my cremaster reflex. He then did the test on the soles of my feet with that little spiked wheel (babinski?). He then told me to relax and picked up my right ankle with one hand and put his other hand under my knee and ran my leg through a range of motion. Then, with my knee raised he did a strength test (don't let me pull /push your leg). Then he did the left leg.

He then had me sit up and sit on the edge of the exam table and he checked my reflexes by hitting my knee with a rubber hammer. He then did range of motion and the push/pull test with both arms.

He then had me stand up and stand in front of him, both facing him and facing away. He asked about my various scars. He had me bend over and touch my toes while facing him and stay in that position while he walked around me.

He then sat on his little rolling stool and told he that he would check my testicles and check for a hernia. While he was rather painfully rolling each testicle between his fingers he asked me about doing self exams. Then it was turn your head and cough time and then turn around, spread your legs, and put your chest on the exam table and he did the DRE.

When he was done he handed me a box of tissues to wipe up the lube. He had me sit up back on the exam table and went through a few things, ultimately telling me to go ahead and get dressed and the nurse would come back to draw blood and get a urine sample. All told, the doc was in the exam room for 30-40 minutes and I was draped for about 10 of those minutes. He was the first GP that I had seen who was not a military or college doc.

I think I saw him for 3 or 4 years and every exam was equally thorough. The only thing different that I remember is that once the nurse had me get undressed and draped first and then came in and took my vitals while I was draped. He never had a nurse or anyone else present during the exam.

Unfortunately he left and moved out of state to start his own practice. Ever since, I've used his exams as an example of what an annual physical should be - and I've always been disappointed.

I should add: 1. not sure this classifies as unnecessary nudity, and 2. this was before I had/understood that I had a medfet. I knew I enjoyed the CFNM thing, but didn't really appreciate it all.

I guess I and everyone else I have talked to went to the wrong doctor. None of us have ever experienced a totally nude examination. I wonder if it was/is a generational, geographical, or personal preference on behalf of the doctor. I think it sounds pretty exciting. I was brought up to accept our bodies and nudity was just part of our existence.

I didn't begin going to the doctor until I was 35. That was nearly 50 years ago and being nude for the whole exam was normal. I stripped when I went in and stayed that way until the end after he finished talking with me. That led to some unexpected nude adventures. His office girl walked in once with the next patients records thinking I was in the other exam room. She was really upset that she did that and I tried to make her feel better on the way out while she was making my next appointment. After that she seemed to come in to see the doctor a little more often and wasn't so squeamish about it.

When I went in for a vasectomy reversal I expected to be exposed obviously. What I didn't expect was the instructions to go into a little room with no door off the OR, remove all my clothes and put on a scrub top.

@X_Raytech Did you take off your socks?

In my country, it is common to undress to the waist during a visit to the family doctor.

At least, my doctor always asks me to do so.

Also, when I have x-rays, they always ask me to take off my top and bra.

I've never had an X-ray in a bra before.

So one kinda brief thing – had to spend a night in the ER last year and when getting admitted they had to had to do a brief skin check of any areas I had any rashes or anything like that in, which is my groin – and at the time since the ER was so busy I was being checked out in a chair in the hallway – which meant when the time came, I had to expose myself out in the open of the ER hallway

Sounds like the typical army nudity when I was in.

Pants, panties and tightie-whities were the first thing to come off and down at the clinic I most often visited as a child.

My doctor had three to four nurses employed in different exam rooms as he made the rounds from room to room. (In the USA, medicine is a production business).

No matter which nurse I had on any given visit, she would ask my mother to unfasten and remove my pants; it was the same for my little sister. Whether I came in for a throat infection or stitches- the pants came off, but oddly never my shirt.

All of the nurses at my clinic strictly followed doctor’s orders on particular exam room procedures, and that meant (kids were to be naked from the waist down).

The climb of shame up onto the exam table in my underpants always ended with the nurse rolling me onto my tummy as she pulled down my last line of defense to “get a temp” on me.

After my temp was taken, my mother would be instructed with “please have him remain bottomless until the doctor finishes examining him.”

He most often entered the room within 10-20 minutes of me sitting on the edge of the table looking down into vacant underpants.

Unless there was an issue somewhere underwear could cover, I was instructed to “go ahead and get dressed,” as soon as he entered.

I now know that keeping children bottomless probably aided him to get through the most patients in an allotted amount of time.

While my nudity seemed very unnecessary to me, I can see why it was for him.

I've never had an X-ray in a bra before.

One of the reasons being, bras often have metal clasps, and perhaps underwiring as well. Rather than debate what your bra may or may not be constructed of, having it off as a standard procedure is the across the board way to go.

@X_Raytech Did you take off your socks?

I did take off my socks, because I like that better, but while I was on the table and they had started draping me one of those females noticed I was barefoot and put socks on me to keep me warm.