Gown/sheet or naked

100% naked from start to finish.

100% naked from start to finish.

Probably the influence of those prudish Pilgrim Fathers @SouthernAnn . 😃

Here are gowns Not common. Was either in underwear or nude. But mostly was completely undressed.

Here we don't use gowns normally so it is only underwear, toplees or bottomless depend on what you go for or even naked on very few occasion

For about 30 years my GP had me naked for the physical from start to finish including about 10 minutes sitting on the table talking with him. He retired about 10 years ago and I now have a female GP who did nothing but listen to my chest through my clothing until this year when I contacted her through the patient portal. I sent her a copy of my answer to a question on Zity stating that I didn't feel like I got a physical at all because I was never naked during the exam for the doc to check everything. She responded that she liked my suggestion and was going to begin having all her patients unclothed for their exams as it would be easier for her that way. She thanked me very much. At my exam a month later she kept her word as I was naked for the whole exam and she checked everything except under my foreskin. I'll have to work on that but it was a huge improvement over my previous exams with her.

I never wear a gown but doen toy underwear from the start. I quite like that as I'm almost but not quite naked and the doctor is in control of when I'll become fully nude.

I’ve never used a gown. Just underwear and then naked.

I always used to get undressed down to just my underwear (maybe socks too) and put on a hospital gown.

The nurse would lead me into the exam room and take my vitals then tell me to get undressed and put on the hospital gown which was already on the exam table. She would leave and let me get changed in private.

Then I would lay on the exam table and relax, happy that I was in a hospital gown and was going to get examined.

Hospital gown is kind of pointless when you have underwear on, at the beach you are just as naked as when you are only in your underwear.

I prefer the hospital gown over naked. I really like them, I like the way they feel on my skin and I associate it with being a patient, which makes me feel good.

Now they do the exams with the patient fully clothed and don't even ask me to take off any of my clothes. But I do anyway. And they never say anything about it.

When taken to the hospital for psych they make you change into the hospital clothes in front of them. They earther have a hospital gown and hospital pants or they have hospital pajamas.

This has happened to me before and the nurse watched me the entire time I got changed. She had me put on a hospital gown and take off my underwear, I didn't understand why I had to take off my underwear too, then I realized she had bottoms for me to wear too, so I was ok not wearing underwear, but it felt funny taking my underwear off right in front of her. I did it under the hospital gown so I don't think she saw anything.

I liked that experience of having to change in front of the nurse and having to take my underwear off in front of her. I wear boxers BTW. And I live in USA.

… at the beach you are just as naked as when you are only in your underwear.

Let me start off by saying that I don't disagree with you. Yes, the coverage is similar whether you are in a swimsuit or underwear. But it's the context that matters. People at the beach/ pool might just get a casual glimpse of you from a distance. They aren't there for you specifically, you just happen to be there too. Also, other than a freak swimming accident or extreme rogue wave, they aren't going to see your naughty bits... And I'm not taking about nude beaches or resorts…

At a physical, the doctor is there specifically to inspect, examine, study, and touch you and your body, inside and out. It is done up close and personal, within a matter of inches of you. You are the entire reason the doctor is in that little room with you. On top of that, you and the doctor (and possibly the assistant too) know that there's a good chance that they will see and touch you in a very personal and intimate way.

I have it every which way for my physical exam, fully clothed from start to finish to most recently in Dec 2021, with my new female Naturopathic MD., fully naked start to finish. However she indicated she was going t start with a full skin exam which to me means no clothes. She asked if I would be more comfortable in a gown but I said it did not matter so she said if I am comfortable with nothing, she is fine so we proceeded. Full skin exam and full physical, head to toe, lasted about 20 min with no clothes. Felt most comfortable and thought it was much more inclusive than any past physical I ever had.

I'd be in a gown with the opening in front, but it's short and thin so it wouldn't provide much modesty, if at all. But the doctor would allow me to keep my socks on.

For about 30 years my GP had me naked for the physical from start to finish including about 10 minutes sitting on the table talking with him. He retired about 10 years ago and I now have a female GP who did nothing but listen to my chest through my clothing until this year when I contacted her through the patient portal. I sent her a copy of my answer to a question on Zity stating that I didn't feel like I got a physical at all because I was never naked during the exam for the doc to check everything. She responded that she liked my suggestion and was going to begin having all her patients unclothed for their exams as it would be easier for her that way. She thanked me very much. At my exam a month later she kept her word as I was naked for the whole exam and she checked everything except under my foreskin. I'll have to work on that but it was a huge improvement over my previous exams with her.

Well that lasted for only one time. Two physicals since then have been fully clothed, only listened through my shirt.

I never had a gown. had several urologistic exams and only had to lower the trousers and pants. at proctologist I only lower the trousers below the bum cheeks and go on gyno chair. never exposed my genital there. I remember at osteopathy I only wear underpants. never nude. at general medic also only underwear. no gown. only times I were naked or had gown is a coloscopy. I guess gown is an american thing…….