Operating Room nudity

I wonder what what happens to patients after they are rolled into the Operating Room.

I'm a manager in a very large healthcare company that has a division that specializes in women's health. One of the products is a sterilization device that blocks the arteries to prevent fertility. Though I have a senior staff role with no medical training, it is expected that managers above a certain level periodically tag alone with our sales reps as they visit physicians and hospitals selling our wares. This is done with the objective of 'knowing our customers'. When visiting the hospitals, we routinely go into the OR during procedures to observe the technique of the OB/GYN and talk about what they like about the product, what they don't like. The patient is sedated, draped in a sterile field, but does not specifically consent, nor will she ever know, that we were there observing the most intimate of procedures. Another one of the many dirty secrets about hospitals and sedation.

One would like to think that professionals would not do such things, but under sedation who really knows?!?!?

I was in the hospital for heart catheterization followed by heart surgery starting on Feb 11 and was in for 26 days.

I was seen in the nude for the catheterization procedure and again I am sure I would have been seen nude for the heart surgery. They normally remove the gown and cover you with sterile drapes. No big deal to me.

During my stay in the nursing unit, I was seen fully nude by probably half of the nurses and aides in that unit. I needed a lot of assistance doing basic things and was glad that I had people willing and able to help me.

If it's the norm though the medical personnel must see so many pussys and dicks that it's just like seeing someones elbow.

If its the norm though the medical personnel must see so many pussys and dicks that it's just like seeing someones elbow.

I have said essentially that many times when the question comes up, Lileea, but lay people just don't want to believe it! They just keep thinking it is a "dream job" to see, or better yet, to examine peoples sexual organs.

You're correct for the most part. Except when I was a newly training Surgical Tech, it got to be old hat very quickly.

One incident was when a woman patient was having a vaginal procedure leading to my introduction to a Ball Speculum. I remember thinking to myself, "They're going to put that WHERE!" trying to keep from crossing my legs.

Also got a look at reproductive organs - colorful women are.

I work in the medical field.. and really.. have doing it for even a couple months, it gets old. After awhile, it's just another body. Sure, everyone comes in every shape and size, and I'm sure people in OR's make fun of others (which is rude, because even if the patient is asleep, they should still be respected), but.... it really is just another naked body.

I'm an x-ray tech, and have seen hundreds of procedures in the OR. I can only speak for the one hospital I've ever worked in, but we do take measures to ensure a patients privacy, i.e. drapes on the windows in the doors, and nobody not associated with the exam coming in the room. However, there is a limit to what can be done in an OR setting. Most procedures require several people with different tasks, they all require exposing the affected part, starting with cleaning. These things usually occur after the patient is put to sleep, to spare them the humiliation. But yeah, when there's a job to be done, it's all hanging out there for everyone to see. For example, when doing urological work, the patient is in the dorsal lithotomy position, usually at least for 30 minutes, with their genitals fully exposed. Everyone in the room can watch as the ureteroscope is inserted, then moved around. And females always get a digital pelvic exam afterwards, to ensure no trauma from the scope. I have to say though, except for one comment regarding a well endowed man, I've never in all those cases seen or heard anything unprofessional. I can't say no one is thinking bad thoughts, but I've never even heard stories of inappropriate behavior. Maybe the large group of staff is a mixed blessing. Yeah, you've got several people with full access to your most intimate areas, but that also ensures one creepy person can't just do whatever to you while your under sedation.

Just read this on CNN and thought of this thread on the forum....

Ever wonder if your doctor is laughing at you?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/10/doctor.laughs/index.html

I have had had 4 operations on me bladder in the last two years 3 of them I was asleep, but the last I had a spinal Anesthetic. So I witnessed how exposed I was in the operating room, Legs high in stirrups, rigid cystoscope pushed down into my penis. I must admit I found the whole thing a real turn on.

I don't know how it is elsewhere, but the hospital where I work serves a large geriatric population, and while I do not work in the OR, I'd imagine seeing your fair share of wrinkled up, saggy, and grey-haired genitals would turn you off from getting turned-on by the patients for a good while. Of course, it may make the occasional young person that much more interesting.

What about surgery in local anesthesia? You can see & hear everything.

I have had had 4 operations on me bladder in the last two years 3 of them I was asleep, but the last I had a spinal Anesthetic. So I witnessed how exposed I was in the operating room, Legs high in stirrups, rigid cystoscope pushed down into my penis. I must admit I found the whole thing a real turn on.

As an OR trained nurse, I find that a bit hard to believe that you are turned on while you are being cut upon and should be wondering how everything is going to turn out, rather than being turned on, especially since you had so many operations on the same site before.

I assured that I need not be worried about the nudity during a colonoscopy exam I recently had. The nurse said something to the effect that they are professionals and they routinely see patients and nothing is something they have not seen before -

I think most surgeon's drape an area so that they only see the area that they are working on

Absolutely correct. For example, for a vaginal procedure, the size of the exposed area is about a 4x6 index card. Everything else is 100% covered and only the anesthesiologist gets to see the patient's face. I would think that having such a small part of the anatomy, out of context with the rest of the woman, to be not worth looking at.

I have worked in an OR yes there is nudity it is just part of the job. but there only a short time that any part of the body is not covered and you only see genitals and breast when you are working on that area. everyone that I know is very considerate about people nudity.

I went to work in a hospital in 1971, starched white uniforms were required at the time along with the requisite cap and RN stripe. in my four years there and a part time private practice there are occasional comments made by both males and females regarding parts of the anatomy that are outside of the norm. There is a certain amount of chatter that precedes the actual operation and another bit after as sort of a decompression from the intensity of the actual procedure. This is very similar to the chatter in an ER that seems so out of place to the casual observer but 12 hour shifts and possibly a few deaths to deal with, there is a need to lighten things up.

so when a guy comes in with a crochet hook lost in his urethra, or a patient that presents with his wife's diaphragm lost in his rectum, yes they are food for the chatter. That beats the hell out of a woman presenting with an impacted tampon lodged in deep in her vagina for three weeks. Bottom line is, yes it happens but not as frequently as you may like to think.

I worked for a brief time as an OR assistant and as someone with a bit of a fetish for the operating room, I am aware of the protocols employed in there too.

For almost any procedure major or minor, a patient is exposed as they need to be properly prepped and draped. If you are having a general anesthesia and it is an open procedure as well, it is likely that some portion of your body will be shaved and a foley catheter will also be inserted into your bladder.

I am sure off color comments are made here and there but it is generally serious a business and everyone has a roll and a job to do. Once the patient is on the table, parts is parts and it is all part of the job.

After all isn't it that element of exposure and the idea of complete surrender or power exchange that is the primary component of this medical kink? There is this odd dichotomy in that the patient is required or expected to submit to or allow intimate access to their bodies by a clinician. I think that in an operating room this idea is only amplified, due to greater exposure and greater surrender of control of your body to the anonymous masked, gloved and gowned staff.

I work in an ER, but have had brief exposure to the OR a couple of times. Unless there was something particularly unusual, the staff was usually just to busy to be pre-occupied with anything but the job at hand. I do remember one doctor making a remark concerning an abnormal feature on a man they were going operate on. The man had a skin tag adjacent to his penis and the doctors remark was about which was which. Otherwise, I can't recall any other incidents.

Unfortunately, there are always some people (including MDs) who can be crude or cruel, as I learned working in the OR years ago. But for the overwhelming majority of those present, they are too occupied with the task at hand to even notice.

. . . . But for the overwhelming majority of those present, they are too occupied with the task at hand to even notice.

I couldn't agree more!

I remember visiting my elderly mother in the hospital when she was in a coma. The doctor was there and he wanted to explain something to me, so he unexpectedly uncovered her breasts. I turned away but the doctor thought nothing of exposing my mother to me.

Some doctors need a refresher course on sensitivity training.

There are probably a lot more people who see you nude or partially so in an OR than you would like to know about.I have seen everyone from surgeons to hospital orderlies go in and out of the OR during surgeries and everyone can see whatever is not covered by the drape.On a happier note, most of you is well covered and only the part that is being worked on is usually exposed for any length of time.

My dental hygenist told me about one of her friends who works as a nurse in an eye hospital. When male patients who are sedated and asleep are wheeled into the operating room they are naked under a sheet. Nurses sometimes gather around for young or attractive patients and lift the sheet for a peek. She bemoaned the fact that nothing like that happens in a dental clinic. I reminded her of the dentist who was arrested for raping a female patient while under sedation. The newspaper headline read "Dentist fills wrong cavity". True story

I believe that to be naked in a OR it is the normal thing, they can have access to all your body in case of necessity and later they cover to you leaving only in the open the parts necessary. By all means if the intervention is in the genitals they must be to the air so that they can operate envelope.

My wife has been a hospital nurse for 20+ years. If I have learned anything from her, it is that there is nothing sexy to a nurse about medical nudity. The reality of the nurses job is that you are on your feet alot, running from room to room, making sure you haven't made any mistakes.

The hospital nurses have to deal with criminals, insane patients, patients on drugs, patients who want to struggle against everything the nurse wants them to do, up to and including trying to physically overpower the nurse.

Nursing is dominated by following protocols, rules and regulations in order to protect their licenses. Every time they go to work they can literally be risking their careers if they screw up.

While I love my medical fetish, I have been made KEENLY aware that it really is just a fantasy. Most hospital nurses, any way, are too stressed out to even be thinking about you sexually. When sexy nurse Roberts is done with you, she gets to give the obese woman with bedsores all over her butt down the hall an enema. How sexy do you think that is?

Think about it, how many of the people in a hospital would you WANT to see naked anyway? Unless you're really hot, I don't think you have to worry. They may see you, but they won't care.

This is a very erotic scenario. Undressing unconscious patients and dressing them again gives the opportunity to nurses and doctors to see beautiful bodies. I am sure 90% of them are professional and do not think about it, but what about the other 10%?

Are there stories involving such a type of advantage? maybe the recovering is a better place to have a look?

Enjoy, 😃

I recently had a gyno procedure and before I was put under I remember them putting me in the stirrups and putting the drapes on me. My gown was pulled up just a tad. I dont think I was brutalized!