Curtain dividing patient and doctor

Wondering how this might work with play exams.. know we love seeing expressions but might be a fun dynamic for the patient. what do you think ?

Hmm good question. You are always thinking arent u.

Dr. Laennec can probably answer this question better than I, but if I remember my medical history correctly, this is how male doctors used to examine female patients back in the "old days". What they hoped to accomplish is beyond me, but those were the standards of propriety.

Play On!

LadyDoc

I have seen many videos of Japanese exams, where there is in fact a curtain between doctor and patient, not letting the patient see anything of what is happening.

Do you know if this is the standard in Japan? And also, don't you think it is terribly exciting for the patient not being able to see the doctor?

The Curtain is frequently used in Japan to ease the patient's embarrassment. She never sees the doctor doing the actual exam. I doubt that there is any excitement since japanese doctors are usually pretty rough with the exam.

N.

I'd love it, blindfolded, even better 😃

Modesty screens were very common in the United States at one point. I have seen several of them in medical museums throughout the country. Doctors were also taught how to examine a female patient while she standing up and he would slip his hand under her skirt to examine her. Medical dolls were also common at an earlier point. Having the Doctor actually touch a woman, though he could not always see her, was progress.

It is also interesting to note that most Doctors had six months of medical school about the time leading up to the US Civil War. A number of MD's went through medical school twice (one year total) just to feel more educated in the field of medicine. I love historical medicine and role play!

Lady Teddy, Oregon, USA

Is there a picture of the modesty screen being used in an US setting? Or is it the same as in japan?

N.

I like the notion of having no sense of what's happening beyond touch....

I once had a prostate examination by a male urologist in his clinic. As I was lying on my side with my knees drawn up and my trousers and briefs down round my ankles, awaiting the gloved finger, a female sonographer pulled back the curtain without first saying the traditional British warning "Knock, knock! ", and then having to wait for the traditional British reply "Who's there?"

This should always be done before any closed curtains around a hospital bed or clinic couch are opened. She did it simply to retrieve her clip-board. I was a bit embarrassed about this sudden unexpected and rude exposure and thought of making a complaint. Then I remembered that women in childbirth often have to endure much worse indignities, and decided not to complain. But it was a most undignified and unerotic experience.