Doctor visits in the 1940s and earlier

If anyone is reading this, male or female who lived during this time or before, please respond. I and a few others here have been posting about the FACT not fiction that visits to the doctor in the 1960s, 70s and even early 80s required total nudity on behalf of the patient from start to finish. This seems to have been a more common thing for boys and men as opposed to girls and women. I can’t verify that cause I didn’t have any sisters and asking my mother and girlfriends would have resulted in shock for asking and a refusal to answer. So, now that we have zity, what was it like for those in my generation and above? And the second part of the question is did you receive better healthcare then as opposed to now. Please, if you choose to respond, keep it medically focused and not sexual because no reputable doctor would ever sexualize their patients health.

I was born just prior to 1950 so have had many doctor visits in the period you're interested in. Never once do I recall being totally unclothed. I became a doctor myself and practiced through the latter portion of the period you're surveying. Never once did I have a patient of mine completely naked.

I know during the 70s and early 80s it was common in the UK to perform a full gynecological exam every 3 to 6 months on women prescribed the pill for birth control. Doing a pelvic and breast exam was considered good practice at the time.

From the data sheet of Microgynon 30, a pill which has been in use for about 40 years. This was a data sheet from 1998/99. "Examination of the pelvic organs, breasts and blood pressure should precede the prescribing of any oral contraceptive and should be repeated regularly".

This was usually by their local GP practice (most practices were single GP practice ...only the GP and receptionist no practice nurse) women were ask to fully undress and cover themself with a sheet . The GP would examine them without a chaperone and most of the time the sheet was discarded by the end of the pelvic exam.

I am a male, born in 1950. All of my exams were either in my underwear (just shorts), or bare chested with pants on. If the doctor needed to examine my genitals or rectal area, he would have me drop my pants or shorts briefly. Very un-erotic.

However, in the early 70’s my girlfriend at the time was in the hospital for a minor operation and she was given a pre-surgery exam the night before the operation by one of the resident doctors. She told me he was young, recently from India, and had a heavy accent. He took her into a small examining room and asked her to take off her robe, nightgown and slippers. This left her in only panties. Her breasts were on the large side, and she said he couldn’t seem to take his eyes off of them. He did the entire exam, temperature, blood pressure, even asking about her family history while she stood in front of him, nearly naked. She said she was extremely embarrassed and could feel the the blood rush to her cheeks as she stood there topless He never asked her to lower her panties, but he gave her an extensive breast exam. She told me his hands were actually shaking when he first reached out to feel her naked tits. Eventually he let her get dressed and walked with her back to her room. She felt like he had abused her, but back then most woman would rather deal with the feelings of humiliation privately than try to press charges. Technically he was just a doctor doing his job, but in reality what happened long ago between those two people in that exam room was intensely erotic, at least from a male’s point of view.

I was born in the 1940s and I do not remember ever being totally naked for a medical exam -- either in the hospital or with my family doctor. Now there may have been an occasion when I was totally naked for a bried period of time, such as when my underpants were taken down for a procedure, injection, or rectal temp, but not during the entire exam.

Same for me. As a child in the ‘50’s I was never examined naked that I remember. Maybe as a baby, but not as a young child.

I was born in the 1960s 22 years after the war. At school physicals prior to school, no nudity. No pants off or similar. Same during my whole schooling. When the Dr. came to the house when I had problem tonsills again respectful manner and just dealt with the issue, no ripping out of my tonislls and I still have them to this day. Not once did I need to be degraded or humilaated in some way in a school or Dr's office, with it being somehow it would be good for my well being. Nor did I let school masters and mistresses scar me for life with their version of mass control of kids and needing to get their pupils scared to death from group physicals and so called tanner staging to somehow indoctrinate children into believing that Drs have overall control of you and your body and to conform to their ever ending financial needs rather than your actual medical needs.