Exam Gowns

I had an abdo ultrasound at the same radiology clinic done by a male technician and a female technician weeks apart

The female made me wear a gown, the male just told me to pull my shirt up and unbutton my trousers and roll them down a bit

I have worn both..I am a fan of the paper. This way I can take it home and the wife and I can use during play doc exams.

Whenever i have had to have a scan or check ups it has always been clothed gown,

I prefer no gown. I want the doctor to see my body and not skimp on the exam out of concern for the modesty I don't have.

At the doctor's office I have used both cloth and paper gowns. Most of the time they are paper and I can understand why since I would think that paper would simply be easier to deal with. They usually have cloth gowns at the hospital for mammograms and ultrasounds. Now at our home clinic SRG and I use cloth gowns only or nothing at all...

Only experience I have is with cloth gowns

When you go to the doctor for a physical, do you get a paper or cloth exam gown? Which, if either, do you prefer? Also, what do you have on under it, if anything?

Always a cloth gown with nothing under. I prefer the cloth gown because we used the paper gowns in school and I heard girls tell how bad they are. They don't look comfortable.

My GYN uses the paper vest and the paper lap sheet.. I actually prefer these .. Gives me that erotic turn on and anticipation of being barely covered.. ?

Sadly the paper type gown although i don't know of alot of "doctors" offices that use the cloth type gown i think that's mainly reserved for hospitals??

I have only had the cloth gowns no matter what doctor or hospital.

We only use the cloth ones. I find the paper ones annoying, and I think my patients like the cloth ones better. Also, we have plus size gowns for our bigger patients. They definitely like that better than barely being covered by the one-size-fits-all paper gowns.

Yes, it means doing laundry, but I think that beats dragging trash bags of paper waste to the dumpster every night, don't you?

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At my gynecologists office they have cloth gowns and cloth sheets to cover up with

I prefer to use cloth

All the offices i have been to have used the disposable paper gowns

Most of the doctors that I have seen have not used exam gowns for my physicals. Those that have used exam gowns have always had the thin cotton gowns that have some light blue or white print patterns on them. I'm tall so the standard exam gown is short on me. When I am standing up, the gown goes down to just above my knees. When sitting on the exam table, the bottom hem of gown is at the middle of my thighs. Which with nothing on underneath the gown means that there can be some exposure if the doctor is sitting in a chair while I'm sitting on the table. I remember once or twice being led into the exam room and the folded gown is already laying on the exam table so I have a good idea that the nurse will be telling me to strip down and wear the gown. For the few other times when I am told to wear the gown, the nurse gets one out of a drawer underneath the exam table or from somewhere else in the exam room.

Have many have had the experience of the exam gown already laying on the exam table when you enter the exam room and you know immediately that you will be wearing it? Has anyone ever had the opposite experience where the exam gown is laying out and the nurse puts it away and tells you to strip to your underwear?

Have many have had the experience of the exam gown already laying on the exam table when you enter the exam room and you know immediately that you will be wearing it? Has anyone ever had the opposite experience where the exam gown is laying out and the nurse puts it away and tells you to strip to your underwear?

I've never seen a gown that was already laying out be put away.

There have been times where gowns were laying out, but i didn't use them.

There have been times where they'll take a gown out from the cabinet while I'm in the room.

There have been times where they'll ask if I want a gown, and when i say no, they won't bother taking one out.

Over the years, I've seen probably every possible combination of types of gowns and how they were presented to me. I've been offered cheap white paper gowns and also cloth gowns in white or various colors or patterns. I've been given gowns that are in sealed plastic bags (presumably to prove to me that they are clean and haven't already been used) or just pulled from a stack and uncovered. I've entered exam rooms where they gown is already laid out and sitting on the pillow on the exam table. But most often, when I am offered a gown, the nurse will pull one out from under the exam table or from a cabinet and hand it to me (or sit it behind me on the exam table) as she's preparing to leave. When the gown is already laid out when I enter the room, it means that the nurse has already gone to the trouble to do that. In those cases, It's always offered to me, or I'm told/asked to put it on. It's never put away at that point.

In the past I have worn a gown, but now I almost never do. I really, really hate gowns since I feel that the entire concept is down right silly. Why go to a doctor with the intent of receiving a thorough physical exam and then arbitrarily cover up parts of your body to make that exam more difficult?

I've never had Healthy44's experience of ever being asked if I would like a gown or not. I wonder how often male patients are asked whether they would like a gown? My experience is that I'm not asked, but told, what I will be wearing for an exam. Only three possibilities for me: underpants only, gown only, or once, gown and underpants. I was offered a drape once after I was told to undress to my underpants, but it was a paper drape and not a gown, and it was offered as an option and not an instruction.

I really, really hate gowns since I feel that the entire concept is down right silly. Why go to a doctor with the intent of receiving a thorough physical exam and then arbitrarily cover up parts of your body to make that exam more difficult?

I could see if you were going to be hospitalized for hours and hours, or where people are coming & going in & out of the exam room throughout a lengthy procedure. Then it sounds reasonable. But for an exam that only lasts how long, i too think it's ridiculous.

Of course I was used to being only in briefs for many years before that modesty kick in the 90's started up. For me, it made no sense that the same doc I would see annually while wearing nothing but briefs, i was now going to wear a gown for? So i never bothered putting it on then. I'm figuring "We're both guys", I'm topless a large percentage of the time i'm outside of work, I have no hang ups about modesty, & it's not like i was asked to remove my underwear for the whole exam.

I've never had Healthy44's experience of ever being asked if I would like a gown or not.

The context of the option is for a skin exam, where it's a doctor I see every 6 months, and by now, used to examining me without a gown. For both of us, it's become a comfortable relationship, and it's not like we're strangers. She's not going to be able to examine my skin if it's covered. If she made it a point to inspect the skin on my genitals each time, perhaps I would be asked to wear a gown to preserve a sense of modesty/decency, given the opposite gender thing.

I would say once you'd had the same doc for a while &/or voiced any comments about the necessity of having to wear a gown, then would be the time it may become optional.

I have a physical exam next with the same doctor who performed my exam last year. Last year the nurse had me undress completely and change into a pair of exam shorts similar to boxer shorts. It will be interesting to see if the same thing happens at my upcoming exam. My clinic is a large city-wide clinic with multiple locations so I don't know how much of the draping procedures are established by my doctor and how much is decided at a higher level.

I've had physical exams with other doctors at the same clinic but a different location who kept me fully clothed. I assume each doctor coveys his or her expectations to his or her nursing staff regarding how to prepare the patient for each type of visit, but again, some of it could be standardized across the clinic or at least across the individual location.

For those who are interested, you can check out my blog post to read about my physical and see what my dress status was like for my physical exam today...

I'll go ahead and share here:

I was given a gown and was instructed after asking to have the opening to the back. The gown itself had a asterisk/snowflake pattern which actually went quite well with the frigid room...

I kept my underwear on.

A pink paper vest and drape sheet at the gynecologist and a cloth gown with a print pattern at my family doctor.

Here at the Company all new hired guys have to get to their undershorts for the physical examination. No Gown is offered.

I never wear any gowns at any of my Dr.'s visits. My FP never uncovers any body parts, my urologist strips me from the waist down for cystoscopy, my vascular surgeon has me take off everything except underpants to check my leg and feet circulation and do ultra-sound of my abdomen and my dermatologist has me strip everything, including watch and rings and hands me a paper towel to place over my lap. Hospitals are the only places I wear gowns.

My current doctor's office uses cloth gowns. They have both light blue and white gowns. The ties match the color of the gown. I've had doctors in the past whose office had paper gowns. Again those gowns were blue.

Prefer cloth paper can pinch. Also the paper rips leading to peak-a-boo exposure.

As a teen my preference was panty and socks gowns felt so unnatural.

I've only been in a gown twice. Both times they were cloth ones that were roughly the size of a tent. I guess it is a one size fits all type thing.

I have never been in a gown for my yearly physicals. For them, I am always undressed down to my underwear. I have been in a gown once for a dermatology exam I had.

My doctors mostly use cloth gowns - giant green ones with little flecks of color on them - if they use gowns. Depending on the specialty, some want you to undress from the waist up, some from the waist down (and then usually covered with a paper drape), and some don't require undressing at all.

I am a fan of the paper drape for vaginal exams as you can use it to wipe all the lube off of you. They rarely provide anything else, which I think is strange.