Emergency room exposure

Anyone ever experienced some good accidental exposure in the ER?

Many years ago I had to go to the ER late on a Saturday night due to appenciditis. At the time, we had a young child so my wife stayed home with him, and a family friend (female) drove me to the hospital.

While a doctor was evaluating me, the friend poked her head in between the curtains to let me know she was going home. She was a former nurse and was known to the staff at the hospital, so they had let her come back into the ER area. Well, I was partially undraped when she suddenly appeared and my penis was clearly visible; I'm sure she saw it.

Oddly enough, she hasn't mentioned that since. 😃

Interesting. She's a nurse though, she's probably seen enough naked men that it didn't even phase her to see your parts.

My wife's a nurse in an ER and tells me quite often of body parts being exposed all of the time. Typically, it's a drunk/high person passing out in the hall after trying to run away.

ER nurses and doctors have seen it all! They probably don't even notice exposed parts.

Were you embarrassed because she was someone you knew?

That would have been an embarassing situation for you to have been exposed like that. It may have been a bit arousing as well.

The ER nurses probably do not pay attention to it...

WWen i was an EMT (a long time ago), I cut off a bikers leather jacket. He said to me "why did you do that you F*7$3# A%6 hole". I told him because I could. Turned out he had 18 broken bones anyway. I guess the power over the patient stayed with me.

The only time I was in a hospital for surgery was for a knee injury. though I was told to wear boxers under my gown, they were still very protective about my privacy, enclosing me in a curtain when helping me dress after the surgery was complete.

ER staff are pretty good about a patient's privacy, but occasionally something happens. I don't think that staff pay much attention to such "accidental exposures". Visitors, on the other hand, have been known to take in that extra glance.

I was having a vasectomy in my local hospital with an assistant nurse in the room but not by the table. The procedure extended through a 'change of shifts'. When the first nurse left and the next shift replacement came into the room I recognized that it was a GOOD friend. Fortunately, she also 'kept some modesty distance'.

My read on this from accounts by others is that there is much exposure and little privacy in emergency rooms.

I'm an ER nurse. Seen it all. Nothing surprises me anymore, just amuses me.

People, we have to get a grip on what is real life and what is fantasy.

Real medical people work with real patients, I doubt very much if the medical staff are thinking..”Well that’s his broken arm sorted.. wonder if he wants me to shove a catheter up his willy just for fun…” See reading it sounds stupid so why then do some of us think that this goes on….

Please do not confuse Real life with your Fantasy.

I'm not confusing real life with fantasy. Mashie, one factor that might be significant—maybe not—is the difference between male a female hard-wiring. I know you're female. I might be a bit different for guys, at least for some. And note that I said it could be a conflict, not that it is a conflict by definition.

You're right, there could be no overlap at all—your fetish has you as patient, for example. But let's consider a male whose fetish is woman having their breasts examined, or women in stirrups, what have you. Let's say that same guy's job involves the very thing he that is his fetish. Even then, I have no problem that most of the time, there is a clear break between fantasy and reality.

But let me put it this way: a guy with a breast exam fetish examines the breasts of two patients. One is over 75 years old and reminds him of his mother. The other is his fantasy woman incarnate. Will the experience for the examiner be the same? That I cannot believe.

Recently I was in the hospital for a serious gall bladder infection. I was on some strong medications, but I do remember being very warm one night, so I kicked all of the covers off my bed, leaving me totally exposed. Early in the morning a young RN came into the room to get my vitals. She took my temperature, blood pressure and checked my stomach without ever covering my penis. When she left, she pulled the sheet up to my waist. I was too drugged to enjoy it then, but now I think about it often.

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She took my temperature, blood pressure and checked my stomach without ever covering my penis. When she left, she pulled the sheet up to my waist.

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You may want to check your gender on your profile. Your profile is set to female yet you seem to be a male.

Now I do know there are operations for that sort of thing and if that's the case, there is nothing wrong with that.

Just trying to help avoid some unnecessary confusion.

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“ER” caught my eye cause that’s where I had my first digital rectal exam. I was about 20, and the doctor didn’t look over 30. But although it was an ER, he did the exam in a room with the door closed. No one saw my bare butt except the doctor.

If it has anything to do with psych or trauma or emotional problem like you are crime victim. At our local ER right inside the door from the lobby and between the nurses station and then ambulance doors there's three nooks no curtains they might give you gown they might not and if you happen to have underwear on your lucky and then you might let you keep those or.not. not even your socks. you're going to be naked right there for everybody to see and everybody walks by says oh they're stripped naked and /or only a gown like that they must be crazy 0 oh and then there's the sitter that sits and watches you while you're making the whole time.

it's b******* and embarrassing I understand the sitter but they don't have to have it right in front of the doors for everybody to walk in and see they could have put it somewhere else.

When you're in an ER you can't expect much privacy, but I have had a wide range of experiences, from extreme modesty to extreme apathy. Any time I go to an ER and don't have to completely undress it's kind of a shock, but when I had a kidney stone and was doubled over in pain and went in, I never got undressed at all, they did a CT scan and had me take off my belt, and that was all. Kind of shocking due to the nature of why I was there. My most recent ER visit was for inhaling a chemical, and I had to completely undress and put the gown on. If you have to walk anywhere in the hospital gown and not have a hand free to keep the back closed, it's pretty much guaranteed someone will see your butt, and nurses may not pay much attention but other patients and visitors have mixed reactions. Most of the time, if I'm in the ER, modesty is not really on the top of my priority list, I just want to be well and whatever indignity I have to suffer is a small price to pay for being healthy.

My wife had a heart scare. Turned out to be anxiety attack.

Our ER has three ER exam areas with curtains around them. and the waiting room/intake area is right outside. If the curtains are open anyone standing can see everything in the exam areas. One nurse and a male orderly helped her get completely undressed and put on a gown. Then various doctors came in to examine her. Each one pulled her gown open to listen to her heart. They were not very concerned with the curtain. Sometimes the nurse pulled it shut but sometimes they just left it open or not completely closed. When a male teck was taking a chest x-ray with a portable machine, a doctor came in and only partly closed the curtain. I saw an EMT and a police officer walk past and look in. They say my wife's completely bare chest. It was awsome.

Because it's an ER, the expectation is on delivering immediate evaluation and treatment. Typically, the exam areas are not very well sound insulated and rely on a curtain to offer privacy for either entry and and separation between examine booths. As such, one can easily over hear what is taking place along side you, which has been my experience, and/or be seen due to a partially pulled curtain. I don't thin that the latter is done on purpose but it happens. The level of exposure varies for sure and is only intensified based upon what it being done during that period of time. It surely leaves a lasting impression!

My wife had a heart scare. Turned out to be anxiety attack.

Our ER has three ER exam areas with curtains around them…..

The ER at the local hospital here has rooms with glass sliding doors and a curtain inside the room for privacy. When you walk past, the curtain is usually drawn so you cannot see the patient's bed and if the glass door is closed, provides good sound insulation.