Gown and Panties

Whenever I was told to put on a gown for a male doctor, me being male & having had so many physicals without a gown even being an option, I still didn't put it on. With that said, if it makes her feel self conscious about her panties, she should just take them off since she's under a gown anyway.

When you are critically ill, modesty is really a non issue as far as most patients are concerned.

As stated by niknoks

I don't see what the big deal is about keeping the pants on . As quite a few have said . You are at the drs to be examined . They are going to see it all anyway .

I didn't give my modesty a second thought . I was just glad that I was where I was to get better again .

In fact if truth be told I'm more concerned with my patient's modesty than they are regardless of the sex of the patient, especially when they are pyrexial ( high temp).

Srg rik also makes an excellent point:

You can't fix stupid. And you can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced.

Fantasy can be a wonderful thing, but let's recognize that for what it really is -- fantasy.

I expect because it a medfet board and most people have no medical experience, nudity is seen as something exciting, but the reality is quite the opposite. Like I said I more concern with ensuring that they survive their critical illness not missing any signs or symptoms, promoting comfort and well being than their state of dress or undress. Most of critical care is proactive rather than reactive so my main focus is ensuring clinically that their condition remains stable, so any physical exam like auscultation, palpation etc is mainly for trying to observe for subtle changes and treating where possible. In the course of performing such exams , the patient is exposed but the nudity is really inconsequential .

I don't see what the big deal is about keeping the pants on . As quite a few have said . You are at the drs to be examined . They are going to see it all anyway

It is obvious that I am not of the younger generation on this board. So I can relate to @niknoks comment. When I was training and working in a hospital, the patients knew where they were, knew that doctors and nurses were going to look at them with and without their gown, that they were going to poked, prodded, stuck and sometimes opened up. While no one carelessly exposed a patient unnecessarily, and tried to preserve modesty whenever possible, the patients actually expected that they would be seen exposed. Times have changed, but I also agree with @RN1993, that when one is critically ill, modesty is really a non issue for most patients, and caring doctors and nurses are more concerned with ensuring that their patients survive than their state of undress.

I think it is worse in terms of embarresment having to take off your pantiies in the middle of the exam. Also, normally the doc does not see my underwear. I take it off before the exam. In this case, however, he would have to see it.

For my wife at her annual exam everything including bra and panties come off before the doctor comes into the exam room. She gets a paper vest for her breasts and a drape to cover her lap.

My greatest site during wife's pregnancy exams was her nipples showing thru the gown. By 9 months they were simply jutting thru the material. Dr couldn't help but see it. I recall a breast exam by a female nurse practitioner at 9 months and the nipple size was huge. I was seated in a folding chair and loving it with a huge hard on.

I’d say just take them off but I can’t turely comment as I have different parts lol

No offense but I really have trouble believing this, a woman is going for a pelvic exam, of course she knows her panties have to come off! Delaying the inevitable seem proposterous to me.