Eavesdropping on an exam

When I was 19 or 20 in the mid-80s, I had unprotected sex during a spur of the moment encounter and was nervous for several days, so I went to the local health department to get tested for STDs. While in the waiting room, an attractive girl about my age entered and I suspected was there for the same reason. We were the only ones there just before closing. I was called into the room and a female nurse took some information, did some vitals and said the doctor would be in. The doctor, as a I recall, was a tall, bald guy maybe mid-30s, 40ish, came in and examined me. No gown, just simply had me pull down my jeans while he sat on a stool in front of me. After he finished I was told to wait for the nurse to return for something, I think to take a blood sample, but can't recall.

Anyway, while waiting I heard the girl enter the next room and was talking to the nurse. The walls were real thin apparently and I could hear some of the conversation. The doctor entered and I heard him ask her to pull down her jeans, just as he had with me. I could even hear the sound of gloves snapping. Then I heard him say something about “genital warts.” I could picture her standing in front of him naked from the waist down while he probed her genitals and I got rock hard just thinking about it. I heard the nurse, as she was still in the room, I assume, as procedure and heard the gal talking to the doctor and got the impression this wasn't her first visit to the clinic. LOL!

I know this wouldn't happen at a gynecologist's office, but I could see situations at a GP or health clinic where males and females would be in adjoining rooms and, depending on the thickness of the walls, you might hear what was happening next door. Anyone have a similar experience?

When I used to go for my yearly physical, I always tried to be the first or second appointment of the day ( before the doc got behind in his schedule). The office was quiet at that time so if I was the 2nd appointment, I could hear bits and pieces of what was going on in an adjacent exam room while I was waiting for the doctor. Knowing he was most likely performing a physical probably allowed me to make out some of what was being said. Was kind of exciting knowing that I would soon be receiving the same treatment as the guy in the other room.

I would bet that this has to rank among the top most valued experiences for a medfet person second only to seeing someone being examined. The faulty sound proofing works both ways! I wonder how it appears to the person on the other side of the wall as my exam is conducted? It's one of the things that has always gotten my attention about ER cubicles or those health stop offices that merely have a curtain to shield your privacy. All I can contribute to this conversation is how I think about it, namely, “FASCINATING,” and the stuff of wild masturbation later.

It loses its appeal when you're trying to work and can hear screaming crying kids all day long, but I do see the attraction.

I was in the ER for suspected urinary sepsis in my early 50’s just a couple years ago. On the other side of the curtain from me was a teen girl with her mom. The girl was complaining of severe abdominal cramping. (She was crying).

I know they clearly overheard the attending doctor tell my nurses, “I want a rectal temp on him.” As sick as I was, it was terribly humiliating- something I had not felt since childhood!

On the other hand, I overheard her getting lectured about water intake and constipation, after discussing her CT scan results. The order was given for her to be given an enema, and then be “transfered to a room for impaction relief.”

I heard this all the time at the pediatricians, kid crying getting shots and one time a little girl pleading to not have to lower her panties. I know others overheard my exams as well. My most memorable experience as at out family doctor's office when I was 15. I was sitting in my underpants when I heard the nurse tell a woman in the next room to take off all her clothes. I was happy my erection went down before the doctor came in to see me.

My brother and I had just gotten finished our checkups and both of us were still in our underpants as the doctor discussed the results with my mother. The doctor and nurse then left and on the way out the nurse said ‘the boys can dress now’. During this exam the nurse (as usual) just stared at us as we both got undressed. So we dressed and as we were going out of the exam room I saw the same nurse with presumably a mother and her daughter walking down the corridor. The nurse stopped at a closet and pulled out a cloth gown and all three walked down the hall. As we passed by them I heard ‘We are going to exam room three and have your daughter remove all her clothing including her bra,underwear and socks’ said the nurse in a very soft voice, presumably so no one would hear. The daughter's eyes grew wide but the nurse added ‘don't worry you will be gowned'. While I did not hear the exam as I saw the door close I knew the nurse would watch her as she took it all off. My imagination went wild. I was wondering if the gown was open in the back or front. Would she complain to her mother about having to strip naked in this strange room? How long would the gown stay on? Questions to jerk off to.

Me again…

Just late last year while waiting at our local clinic for my second Covid shot, a woman with a toddler in tow was called into an exam room for the little girl’s appointment. I could tell she likely had a cold; she was a feverish blotchy red with a running nose. I met them as they were leaving in the hallway while en rout to an exam room of my own. The daughter was visibly distraught and now being carried by her mother who was fairly loudly explaining, “Your temperature would not be taken in her bottom if you would stop shaking her head and being so naughty!”

It was more of a public broadcast than me eavesdropping.

During my military examination, I had to wait naked in a dressing room which was only closed with a curtain. I could fully hear the examination of my predecessor, quite exciting when you know that it is your turn next and that your successor can also hear your examination.

I have never been able to hear the details of a whole exam. Only bits and pieces of the conversation between the doctor and the patient. Years ago I was sitting on the exam table waiting on the doctor to come in and give me a employment physical. All of sudden very clearly through the wall of the exam room I could hear the doctor telling his patient, that his prostate felt slightly enlarged. At the time I wasn't old enough to have experienced a prostate exam. But I was well aware of it was done. After hearing that I sat there nervously waiting on the doctor, wondering if that was going to happen to me next?

The only eavesdropping I ever heard was in the recovery room after my wife had an angiogram. The lady one curtain away had to pee but refused a bed pan. She and my wife both had femoral punctures and had to wait laying down for the wound to close before they could get up. Don’t know if she held it or wet the bed. It was kind of a silly conversation between her and the nurse. We both laughed about it.