Degree of undressing for a physical exam

My doc leaves me fully dressed unless necessary to examine something specific. That usually means taking off my shirt, shoes and socks for a regular brief office visit. For an annual head-to-toe checkup, the nurse has me take off everything but my boxers before the doctor enters the exam room. I keep on my shorts until he gets to the humiliating part.

Today was a short semi-annual exam just to check the status of my prescription meds. For that I had a blood pressure, temperature pulse, etc by the nurse in prep for the doctor and eventually an abdominal palpation and a couple other small checks by the doctor. Didn't need to remove any clothing for that checkup. She transitioned me to an annual exam today so the next one will likely be much more thorough. Hope so as the little short ones are a lot less exciting.

My doc's motto - no modesty in medicine. Almost every visit usually involves undressing to boxers for me. My wife sees he same doc and she is usually asked to undress to panties, sometimes getting a vest to wear on top. I've had a few times when he asked me to undress and he stayed in the exam room while I did so.

Personally, in the US, I think the doctors like people to keep their clothes on because they're tired of looking at all of these fat people. The American people are way overweight and usually don't like to follow doctor's orders to lose weight. I had an exam in April and didn't even get undressed. They asked me a bunch of questions, listened to my heart and lungs, and did the ears, eyes, nose and throat. Done??? Nothing more. I asked if the exam was over and they said, "do you have any other complaints? If not, you're done."

Docdawg, you have posted on side of the divide which I experienced and posted myself when the doctor simply asked questions on his laptop as I remained completely dressed. On the other side are the exams which involve observations for which the patient is undressed.

My doctor leaves me dressed unless he needs to see something specific. He isn't shy about putting his hand up my shirt or unbuttoning and pulling down my pants.

I was brought up in the UK, never ever had to undress for a physical at school, just remove your shirt, no check of anything 'down there' neither for the military or civil service, I am 50 now, and in the whole time in the UK never disrobed for one physical examination. I feel kind of lucky. Now I live in the US, I was asked by a nurse when I had an ankle injury to put a gown on, I simply refused and reminded her that my ankle was on the end of my foot and that a gown would not be helping anyone. I have never had a drop and cough examination, but neither have I ever been hospitalized, I haven’t had a day of sick in over 10 years.

Depends on what examined but nude a lot, no gown. At school only down to panties.

I go to a female NMD in AZ My wife started going there first I 2021 and I attended her appointments. About six months later she had her yearly physical, including pelvic exam, totally nude. I became a patient also and I think six months after about 3 regular exams, she said at my next appointment the nurse will draw your blood then we will follow that up in 7 days with a complete head to toe physical and complete skin exam. Me and my wife’s physical each lasted about 90 min. I was totally nude eventually standing for my skin exam and my male genital exam. We are both in our mid 50s. A gown was offered to use but the doctor did tell us we would have it eventually removed. Prior to our physical, she did indicate you will be totally nude for parts of the exam and that was the only way she would be able to complete a thorough exam. We were both very comfortable, even though nude, since we had 2-4 appointm, each an hour long,, prior to our physical which I think made us very comfortable and more open communication with our doctor.

For my annual physical it is remove everything and put the paper gown on opening to the back.. for anything else it depends on what part needs to be examined