Privacy at the doctors office... Sounds from other rooms..

The only time I ever recall this was in my teens when we had physicals a few times at a state health center. They offered super cheap physicals for kids on certain days, and they would be very busy those days, but the exam rooms were one very large room that had been divided into smaller ones. the walls were more substantial than curtains, of course, but basically just a panel. So you could hear what was going on on either side of you and you could hear what was going on in those rooms as you waited to go in.

Has anyone in this situation specifically heard someone else being given instructions to undress? If so, do you remember the phrasing used (as well as how much they were supposed to take off)?

I have never really heard anything from other rooms in the years I have gone to various medical offices. A couple of times you might here the doctor giving some type of instructions but, nothing really serious. Oddly enough, I was called back to see the doctor and the nurse just told me to go to the room on the right at which I pointed and she nodded yes, opened the door which was occupied with another patient.

In most of my experiences, the sounds are "muffled". I can kind of hear what is going on outside the room in the sense that i can hear voices, but can't really make out the actual converation. For example, I can hear my doctor talking to the nurse before he comes in, and I can pick up some of the word, but not everything.

I don't recall ever hearing another patient in detail having something done.

Now for procedures, like colonoscopy, there is the big room with curtains dividing the room, but again, i'm either not really paying attention or just can't really follow other's conversations.

After an angiogram in the recovery room, you used to have to wait several hours in bed with your legged wrapped, not able to get up waiting four the wound to close. Lady next to my wife (separated by a curtain) complained she had to pee. The nurse offered her a bedpan and she said “I’m not gonna pee in a goddamn bedpan!” She went on and on about getting to the bathroom but the nurses wouldn’t let her. Don’t know how it ended up.

@Rigel after my visit to the cath lab I had to pee. The doc went through my arm instead of my leg though. They let me stand up holding me from behind but I could not use or move my arms or hands. So one nurse held me from behind but used one hand to hold my penis. The other nurse held the handheld male urinal. No embarrassment from me just relief. They were too nervous, worried that I would fall. The primary nurse was just as relieved when they put me back in the bed. I had another hour or two to wait before they would let me go home.

The funny thing is that the prep nurse shaved me down below and the wrist area of both arms. I guess that was so the doc could have his pick of catheter placement for the procedure.

@Srgfgahs Last time they used a “plug” to seal the femoral artery. Cut the wait time from 4-6 hours down to 2 hours. I don’t recall them ever shaving her for a femoral cath placement, but my wife has sparse, wispy pubic hair (which I enjoy 😀).

About a month ago I went in for a doctors appt., I was taken to an exam room and told "the doctor would be in soon". Suddenly I've heard crying and screaming from the room next to me It was a poor little girl getting blood drawn and getting shots. Poor kid, I had flash backs of my own childhood appts. having to go through the same thing as a kid.