Naked in Emergency Room

Someone had to stay naked in emergency room in front of relatives, friends or co-works ? I imagine how embarrassing it must be...

Not personally but if you come into the trauma bay the team will most likely cut every stitch off and there's quite a few people in the room. No relatives or friends though..just medical professionals. They will cover the patient after an assessment

I was in a car wreck in college and was taken to the ER mainly as a precaution for a possible spine injury. I was attached to some kind of stretcher and was absolutely not to move until all evaluation was done.

In the ER, they put the stretcher on the exam table. The was a big city medical school hospital, and a student about my age cut off all of my clothes with scissors to avoid any movement. The I was left laying there nude for what seemed like hours. All kinds of personnel from doctors, nurses, med students, EMT professionals, aides, family members of other patients could look in the door of the "trauma room" and see me in my birthday suit.

It was cold and I remember being embarrassed that my nipples were hard. I also remember thinking: "Its been two months since I trimmed my bush . . . I'm a hairy mess down there and everyone can see it!

At one point a group of medical students stood in the room discussing my case as if I wasn't there. "What was her APGAR score?" one of the students asked. The rest of the group burst out laughing. One student explained: "That's the scale for newborns, it has nothing to do with her--you moron!" The all laughed again. I thought to myself that, in a sense, I really was about to be a newborn or born again. I was schedule for sexual reassignment surgery in just a few days. More than anything, I hoped there was no serious injury that would delay that procedure. It seemed odd, but that seemed to be the most important thing to me.

Just then, to make matters worse, several friends from school came in to visit, some that I didn't know that well, and saw everything.

After spending most of the evening like this, a nurse finally came in and told me all the test were negative and I could get dressed. I got up to do so and realized I didn't have any clothes.

So I waited there naked for another half hour until someone brought me some surgical scrubs. At one point, a guy in a medical uniform seemed to take a picture of me with his cell phone from outside in the hall. By then, so many people had seen me naked that I didn't care. Besides that, the female they were looking at would soon disappear, like a sexual mirage.

@ attorney,

Really?!?! Sure, your clothes were probably either cut off you or they were removed. Though the ER staff leaving you naked, in your birthday suit without a sheet to cover you or a gown to cover you when they were not attending to you for evaluation, workup, intake or tests?!?!? This is the USA where modesty for the patient is a big deal. Out of curiosity, what was your APGAR at the scene of this so-called accident vs the APGAR upon admission and release from the ER? Yes, the ER staff can be seriously overworked and understaffed. I have a hard time believing this happend to you.

Andie, the APGAR test is for newly born newborns--minutes after birth, not for adults with pubic hair and a bush.

@Switchable, I think that's what Andie was trying to say.... that he was a newborn if he was fully naked,

NO! Andie specifically referred to his car wreck/ER visit. Besides, attorney said his friends from school came to visit him.

NO SLACK for attorney.

If I am able, I am usually glad to take off my clothes and not have them cut off but if that's the only way, go for it. It is merely cloth and replaceable. Re being naked on the table in the ER, very unlikely for more than a moment or two, at least in my experience having worked in a hospital training docs and nurses. First responders use AVPU regularly, usually before being hospitalized.

When I was 12 years old I was involved in a road accident. I wasn't seriously injured but I had quite severe road rash on my stomach and hips. This caused me to be kept completely naked in the ER for several hours while various nurses and doctors cleaned the grit from my wounds with wire brushes. I have no idea how many people saw me naked, but it would have been a lot. Including my best friend's aunt who was a nurse at the hospital.

I was quite undeveloped for a 12 year old boy and didn't have any pubic hair at all yet and hadn't started masturbating either, although I had been experiencing erections for a while. I can clearly remember at least one doctor examining my genitals in the ER, pulling the foreskin back and asking me if it hurt while there were at least 5 other medical staff attending to me and both of my parents by my side. If I hadn't been in shock and pain from my injuries I would have found that extremely embarrassing.

I was in the children's ward of the hospital for 4 days after that, and I was essentially naked, covered by a thin bed sheet, the whole time. I was a bit embarrassed being visited by girls my own age and the only thing protecting my modesty was a sheet they could have easily lifted.

Someone else ?

@S T Way. Thanks for sharing that traumatic incident in your life. The kind of fascinating post to read about which makes Zity unique. Pretty awful for you at the time. But now, many years down the line....do you ever reflect on the experience with a degree of eroticism?? I only ask because I had to endure quite a lot of nude examination (but not as a result of RT trauma) ...and nowadays, I get quite aroused at the thought of it....

I can appreciate to some extent what @something_this_way went through in A&E / Emergency Room.

I had a series of scheduled exams when I was a little older that he was, which were conducted with me naked in front of my mother, a nurse and a doctor.

Certainly as STW says, it's a shock when it happens the first time, even if in his case he was "protected" by the shock and pain of his injuries. I wonder how it was for him when he met his friend's aunt afterwards!

I can vouch for the fact that it's even worse when your appointment is regular and scheduled!

So glad that my friend Andrew Wood has posted about some of his experiences as a teenager. I will not attempt to steal his thunder. Suffice it to say that I salute his fortitude during what happened to him as a young teen boy c.30 years or so ago.

Having to remain totally naked in front of his mother, a nurse and a female doctor for at least 30 minutes or more...how he coped with all of it, I simply don't know. Respect!!

A patient who has suffered trauma in a car accident or other accident is probably the only kind of ER patient who has their clothes cut off of them and might be left naked and covered with a sheet until all of their injuries are diagnosed. The only reason to cut clothes off would be if the patient is unconscious or badly injured enough that the medical staff doesn't want them moving. Patients who able to walk into an ER and are able to remove their own clothes are not going to have this happen. If their situation is serious enough to require a more detailed exam, they will be asked to undress and change into a gown. A person coming into an ER for stitches on a arm or leg or face may not have to undress at all unless the wound is covered by clothing. I've never been in an ER for serious trauma but have been able walk in. Changed into a gown once and didn't change the other time.

When I was a kid, I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle. I don’t remember being hit, but I woke up in the ER with people asking me questions which I didn’t understand. They cut my clothes off me and I was completely naked on the exam table for quite a while as they checked me over. They inserted an IV and catheterized me for a urine sample. Finally the put a sheet on me to take me to x-ray. My family didn’t arrive till later and I was thoroughly terrified. I didn’t have any serious injuries except a cut on my ankle which needed stitches.

Naked in ER before trauma is not uncommon.

I only went once to the emergency room and I was not naked, I had a gown. The patients were in boxes closed by a curtain. I saw another patient who had leave the box and walked almost naked, he had only boxer briefs. The staff told him to return immediately to the box.

I've been in the ER for cardio issues and just had to remove my shirt for the EKG electrodes to be put on. I did end up in the hospital after that for this thing called a heart attack but even there had my boxer briefs in blue on under the gown.

The past couple times I've been to the ER, Ive only had to remove my shirt, and they gave me a gown to wear, but still I kept my pants, socks, and even shoes on. Honestly after a few hours it felt a little uncomfortable to be lying in a bed and still wearing shoes and jeans, I kinda wish they had made me take everything off at that point.

One of the those two times though, I ended up having to get admitted to the hospital, and it wasnt until I got up to the hospital room itself did I have to strip off everything else and put another gown on, and I was pretty much in that same state for the next week.😉

I've never had to go to the ER. But the thought of having to be completely naked. For ER exam sounds unexplainably intense.

I've posted about this elsewhere (https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=993106), but as a teenager I got knocked off my bike and had suspected pelvic injury. When I was taken to the hospital I had all my clothes cut off of me and ended up being wheeled to the scanner with a very thin sheet covering an extremely obvious erection (caused by bruising to nerves). Due to pain relief I was not completely aware of what was happening, but was highly embarrassed when I later found out 😳

That must have been embarrassing for you.

Mashie

My college roommate came with me to the ER once. That’s when I got my first digital rectal exam but my roommate wasn’t in the room when it happened.

That must have been embarrassing for you.

At the time I wasn't fully aware of what was happening, so the embarrassment wasn't too high. However, as posted in the linked item, having clothes cut off and then being log-rolled for rectal exam with extreme pain was unpleasant and I could feel some embarrassment from the number of people looking at me, examining me and discussing my condition. Fortunately, I was not aware at the time, but I understand from what my mom said later, she arrived just before they covered me and took me for the scan. She said she was surprised by what she saw & the nurse who accompanied me didn't know where to look while they were in the lift. Apparently there were a good number of awkward stares as I was being taken to and from the scanner. I do remember when they catheterised me it was awkward for the nurse and very painful for me!

Having seen modern medical documentaries, I sometimes wonder just what that scan showed / revealed & what happened to it.

I think being told later the details of what happened; and the number of medical personnel involved, really added to the embarrassment - I know I was told not to worry; they'd have seem it all before & worse! Was still highly embarrassing. Would possibly make a nice play scenario nowadays 😄

I was in an ER only once, at 23 years old. I was very dizzy and felt warm and had chills at the same time. It was on a Sunday, and doctors offices were generally closed. I went to the ER and was handed a gown and told to remove all my clothes and put on the gown with the opening to the back. I was surprised when the nurse shook down the thermometer and told me to turn over on the table. I thought that rectal temperatures were over with, but apparently this was still the policy in this hospital. I didn't argue or anything, because you don't win arguing with people at a hospital, and I also just wanted to feel better. While the doctor examined me I always had the gown on, and even though my genitals were checked, the gown was just lifted up. I ended up with a penicillin shot and was given a prescription. That was my one experience in an ER.

In an emergency situation I don’t think I would care. Most people wouldn’t if it’s life or death.

In FINLAND all patients are required by law to be completely nude.

MY GIRLFRIEND WAS THERE ALL THE TIME

In FINLAND all patients are required by law to be completely nude.

MY GIRLFRIEND WAS THERE ALL THE TIME

When you say your girlfriend "was there all the time", what do you mean?

In a life and death situation I don't care. Same with on rescue. I cut clothes if need be. Your life more important then clothes. I was pulled out a building collapse my depart had to cut my turn out gear. I don't remember but when I woke up in ICU completely naked. Most have gave the guys from the department a good show.

The only time I was at an ER they had me strip to my undershorts and put on a gown. I was nervous as hell because I had been whipped the night before and still had bruises. I was sure they saw but no one asked about them.