Weighing

I weigh my patients when they are in just their underwear. I also look then for posture, etc.

Normally, fully clothed including shoes. A couple of times I removed my shoes, and the nurse did not seem to care. As a kid, might have been in socks and underwear, but really do not recall ever being nude.

Right at the beginning of the exam - done by my doc!

As my general exams are usualy done when I am nude, there is nothing more to "come off"!

Lately these past years when I am weighed, the nurse or assistant doesn't even have me remove shoes, sweater or at times even my winter jacket. It's just step up and be weighed. A few times I've commented on this and remarked how many layers of clothes I'm wearing, or jingle my pockets which are often stuffed with keys, tokens, a mess of coins, a cell phone and other trinkets and whatnot. It's never made a difference and they just tell me to forget about it. They say they can make an accurate enough estimate ...

So whatever ... next time maybe I'll pack a few kilos of lead gutter lining in my pockets and see what happens ... ha ha

I've had them comment about a 3 or 4 pound weight increase between summer (t-shirt and shorts) and fall/winter(jeans, long sleeve shirt, hoodie and leather vest). If you're going to use office measurement of weight clinically, there needs to be a standardized method of measurement.

Would it fly for them to guestimate a critical drug dosage based on 'fat' versus 'thin?'

When I was little they always weighed me in my underpants. Then dressed but without shoes. Now completely dressed with shoes on. At the pediatrician's nobody cared if children were seen in the hallway in their underpants. These days that wouldn't be acceptable. Since weighing is done in a public area by a med tech, they due clothed and don't worry about the error.

Probably my most accurate medical weighing was in the hospital before a cardiac catheterization. The procedure was to undress and get in the gown and wear the hospital socks. Next, visit the bathroom. After that, on the way to the stretcher for the rest of the prep, stop by the scale in the prep area for a weight wearing only the gown and socks.

This happened at every cath experience, although the bathroom process was different depending on the facility. The last one, the instructions were to use the bathroom and change into the gown there. Weighing was accomplished on the way back to the stretcher.

I was recently weighed during my annual checkup and I was fully clothed. The weight was taken by the medical assistant in the exam room prior to the doctor arriving. The weighing and capturing of my vitals were performed by the MA. I believe that most clinics have one away with nurses and turned to cheaper alternatives such as MAs. Most of these individuals are very young and most likely only have completed a one year certificate program in order to practice as MAs. In any case, I don't believe they really care about slight fluctuations in weight. More so, they look for fluctuations over long periods of time (2-3 years) vs. back-to-back visits.

All was not for nothing, however. I simply went home and weighed myself nude just on principal. 😃

That's the first thing that happens when I get called back. I'm usually weighed in the hallway with everything on. Every so often they ask to remove shoes. When I was a kid I was always weighed in my underwear as there were scales in each room. I wish it was still like this.

When I was young the doctors office had a scale in the examining room and I was weighed in my underwear. It's been a long time since that was done. Weighing always gets done first while completely dressed.

What's the point of getting a medical weight measurement if it is not done properly?

I weigh my patients in their bra and panties only before the exam and I ask them to bare feet. No heels or shoes whatsoever should alter the weighing process. Since height measurement is involved just after the weigh-in I wouldn't accept shoes anyways.

Gown & underwear

Weights have been done in either a station in a common hallway area or in the individual exam rooms depending on the particular office. I have always been dressed with shoes off for weight and height. I would love to have the experience of being weighed in my white briefs.

Usually for annual exams i used to have with my employer, i was weighed with clothes on, but took my shoes off.

Lately, for the follow up blood pressure monitoring, as i have started seeing a PCP & taking blood pressure meds this year, it's the same thing. However, back in April when i first saw the PCP & had a physical, I was weighed in just a gown with a jockstrap underneath.

The kicker is that for these bullshit ripoff follow up bp monitorings (which i say because it's taking time off to go for a 40 dollar co-pay visit like every 6 weeks), they check my height too. Like that's supposed to change at my age. But i will say this: I've learned how to make my posture more upright. And so i got back 1 of the 2 inches i lost in height over the years.

Never happened to me. Always weighed clothed

Always completely nude for accuracy.

About a year ago, I went to volunteer for a clinical study. I thought it was just to answer screening questions, but as part of the screening they did want to get weight and height. The student intern doing the screening said they wanted accuracy, so she asked me to remove my shoes and pants, so whatever was in my pockets wouldn't interfere. If I'd known it would be a bit more like a physical exam then I would have worn underwear, but I I haven't worn any regularly since college. She just said that was fine, to go ahead and take the pants off anyway, it would just be for a few moments. This was in a private room. So, I took off my shoes and then pants, with her standing right next to me. Then, I stepped on the scale just in my shirt, nothing below the waist. She did the weight, then had me turn around facing her while she did the height, and then told me I could get dressed again, and we continued with the screening. Later, it turned out I wasn't a good match to participate in this study, so was all for naught.

I have always been weighed in street clothes in the hallway of any doctors office I have visited. Only shoes or jacket are removed for the weigh in

Yes, sometimes i was weighted nude. I guess nudity was not only driven by weighting, but more by the examination to follow. However, it was embarassing and unpleasant.

Always clothed.

This was done in the gown b/c it was in a hallway at the doctor I mostly went to. Now it tends to be totally in clothes. I guess as an adult, not growing, accuracy matters less. and self reporting may be better.

I'm weighed in street clothes only removing any jacket or coat and setting my purse aside. I'm not even asked to remove my shoes.

When I went for my Army physical back in 1965, somehow my height and weight sheet got lost. Fast forward 60 days and I am now in the induction center and they told me about the loss and weighed me again but this time I was only in my briefs and I was only 115 lbs. ---Then they told me I was too light by one pound and "too bad goodbye" to me. Then I said that I was first weighed with my pants, shirt, and shoes on, so I was told to get dressed again and then it was 116----"congratulations, you are now a soldier"----( yes I had enlisted back then during the Vietnam era)

I have never undressed to be weighed at a doctor's office. I'm in my street clothes and keep my shois on. In winter, I will take off my coat or jacket, but that's all. Same for my wife, but she always steps out of her shoes.

In my childhood I used to be weighed completely nude or wearing only pants. As a doctor, I use the same scenario with my female patients

I have always been in a gown except when I was a child and then it was in panties.

I have always been weighed by the nurse at the beginning, when I'm fully dressed. Next time I want to ask the doctor to do it himself.

I have never been weighed naked and think it would be very unprofessional to be asked to . They would get a very stern reply of " Absolutely not !"

My doc weighs me when I'm wearing nothing but underpants and socks.

I remember that in my pediatrician in panties and barefoot and my son do it in underpants and barefoot too.