Ever have a long wait undressed in the exam room before the doctor came in?

My usual wait times are about 2-5 minutes. My longest wait time was 15 minutes, but i knew she was a bit behind schedule, so it wasn't much of a bother.

My doctor's PA shows me to a bathroom to give him a urine specimen in a tiny cup, directs me to a room and he gets me to undress, gets me weighed, and he gets my vitals to get me started. Normally 10-15min sitting up with my legs dangling from the table with nothing on but my briefs. As somebody mentioned being cold and yes my nipples get hard. This goes along with another thread; listening to what is going on in the exam room next door and all kinds of thoughts racing thru my mind. Longest ever was about 30min, but not at my current doc's office, but at a mega clinic and totally nude under a short paper gown.

I'd love the opportunity to be able to sit on the edge of the exam table , legs swinging waiting in anticipation for the Dr .

Here in the UK that never happens . You only undress what needs to be examined .

Even at a dermatology appointment I had quite recently I didn't get to strip and put a gown on . The Dr examined my top half and got me to dress again .

Then I undressed my lower half and he examined my lower body whilst a nurse was present . Then I got dressed again , before he discussed his findings .

Having had my annual physical this morning gave me an opportunity to think about this question. I rarely wait more than five or ten minutes once I am undressed and in the gown. The nurse knocked less than a minute after I was ready and lying on the table. She then came in to do the EGK, After she left, I was asked to sit up and wait for the doctor. I waited less and five minutes for the doctor. The only time I have been in a gown and waiting for any length of time was after I was prepped for my knee operation. I was at least 30 or more minutes before they came to take me to the ER.

Never been told to get naked.

Physicals usually clothes come off as needed.

Derm appointments it's undies and she takes them off to check my crack and anus and to check my penis and scrotum.

She does ask for me to pull back the foreskin, she won't do it.

I had a couple of hemorrhoids that clotted earlier this year snd the doc took the clots right there. I took my pants off but kept my shirt and he opened the gown just exposing my butthole and did his thing.

I already posted in this thread about my physical last year, but this year was even worse. The room was ice cold and I waited nearly 30 minutes in a gown and underwear. No matter how much I tried to wrap up, I couldn't get warm...

One time I had shown up to PT for my back and was in extreme pain due to a recent tweak that would not reset itself. The PT told me she would not do anything with me until I was cleared by a doctor and suggested I go see the walk in clinic folks. Long story short, I was there for 5 hours! The nurse took my vitals, then sent me back to the waiting room. I sat there for 45 minutes, getting somewhat frequent updates. The doctor then calls me in and he says to go get an xray. So I head over to the xray folks and get images done. The tech told me it would take some time to get the images to the doctor, so I went to get some breakfast. Then sat and waited in the waiting room for the doctor. He finally calls me in and tells me I have no broken bones in my back. I could have told him that! He then sends me up stairs to get a walking cane. 5 Hours, Wow!

This one other time I was seen by a new office for an annual physical. The nurse brings me back and does the initial intake stuff, tells me to undress and await the doctor. The doctor comes in fairly soon after. She spends about 25 minutes with me, then tells me to get dressed and the nurse will be in after. I get dressed and sit there waiting..... and waiting.... I can hear then out in the hall. Being in the last exam room, I finally decide to open the door a bit to indicate I am dressed and waiting. Still nothing. I finally had to leave for another meeting. I open the door and there is now no one in the halls. It is very quiet. I slowly make my way to the front waiting room area. No one challenges me, and I walk out without a word. Nothing was ever said about me leaving the office.

I went to the orthopaedic doctor about a month ago. I didn’t have but a 15 minute wait in the waiting room before I was taken to an exam room. The nurse took vital signs and then pulled an exam gown out of a drawer and handed it to me. It was an actual cloth gown! She told me to take off “everything —that includes your underwear”. I did as instructed and sat on the exam table waiting in the doctor. After about twenty minutes the nurse returns and tells me that the doctor is running behind, but I need some x-rays, so they’ll take care of that now. She walked me to the x-ray room in my gown and they took a series of x-rays and returned me to the exam room. Close to an hour had passed. Again I waited. After about 20 minutes the nurse comes back and tells me the doctor is still tied up but they have to take one of the x-rays over because it didn’t come out right. So back down the hall. X-ray taken and checked and then back to the exam room. Finally after a little over two hours the doctor shows up. She apologises and told me she had to go to the emergency room to treat a patient.

Having had longer wait times in exam rooms for both my physical and my skin exams, I paid attention to the wait times this time.

For my skin exam a week and a half ago, it was 8 minutes from the time. For my physical this morning. I put the gown on the assistant laid out for me before she left, with no intention of closing it, but the ties were on one side, and I was trying to know it up so the dangling wouldn't look so obvious.

I thought the assistant was coming back to get my weight, as in the past, but the doctor came in herself instead. Was a little surprising.

Had some appointments with a gastroenterologist this past year. The first time, I was naked from the waist down on the exam table with a paper sheet covering me for about 20 minutes before she came in. After probably 10 minutes or so I made a quick dash to my clothes to get my phone hoping she wouldn't come in during that time that I was up. The next time the nurse asked me to completely undress and put on a back-tie gown, and that was also about a 20 minute wait. The other two times she came right in.

Every now and then there would be some type of emergency that would hold up the doctor.

A few times the nurse would knock and then open the door to let me know that the doctor would be with me shortly.

I started to enjoy sitting there in a paper gown anticipating the doctors arrival.

I’d leave my clothes neatly folded on the chair next to the exam table.

Usually have to wait about 10-15 minutes undressed in my gown for my dr to enter the exam room

I usually don’t have to wait more than a few minutes.

When I was being screened for a dermatological study, they started with me in one exam room, where the nurse went through a questionnaire with me, then asked me to disrobe.

There was no gown in that room, so she went to find one. I undressed, and waited several minutes until she handed me the gown through the door. Once I had it on, she opened the door and led me down the hall to the scale. The gown didn't have good ties, so I was holding it partially closed in the back, with lots of people passing by in the hallway.

Then back to the exam room, but the nurse found the blood pressure cuff didn't work, so I waited a few more minutes while she found another room. Then I was led down the hall, being told I could leave my clothes there. After checking my vitals, the nurse said I'd actually be staying in that room, and the doctor would be with me shortly.

Shortly, turned out to be more than 30 min., so I needed to run out to pay the meter. My clothes were still back in that other exam room, so I went down the hall still holding the gown somewhat closed in the back.

When I came back in, I went to the 2nd exam room, disrobed again, and waited in the gown for another 10-15 min., enough time to get some photos which are on my profile. Made good use of the wait this time.

The actual time I spent with the doctor was only about 10 min., because I didn't qualify for the damn study!

Usually wait for at least 10 minutes after the nurse takes my history and has me change.

Yes, unfortunately.

The day I had my testicular ultrasound was too rainy, so I had to wait for almost one hour before being called to the exam room because the doc was stuck at the traffic. Then, after having received the main instructions by the nurse and wearing only my T-shirt and a gown of the size of a shirt, I had to wait for about 5 minutes or so at the exam table.

It was a cold day, and the air conditioning was too cold.

Not a pleasant experience.

Sat in a dermatologist exam room wearing briefs and a gown for about 45 minutes one time. Through some very thin walls, I heard to doctor on the phone for most of the time making various arrangements, including a plane ticket.

I finally got dressed and left, getting a sympathetic nod of understanding from the receptionist.

About 15 minutes later. I got an apologetic call from the doctor explaining that her mother had just passed and she was having to make funeral arrangements and travel plans.

I rescheduled the exam for a week or two later, this time with no undue waiting in the exam room.

As I have said many times my mother was a little crazy or maybe she liked medical and I never knew it. but I have very clear memories where I took off all my clothes before the doctor arrived and once they told her that it was not necessary but she would do it again in an upcoming exam. I think that's where my taste for medicals

I experienced something like this during the exams I had to have in my teens.

The routine was that I would undress completely at the beginning of the appointment, then the nurse would come in to record my height & weight before the doctor arrived to begin the rest of the exam.

Sometimes there would be a delay between the nurse finishing and the doctor arriving, sometimes I would be undressed and waiting for the nurse to arrive. It might only have been a couple of minutes, 5 at most, but it certainly felt awkward.

Every time as a child, after the nurse finished up with taking my rectal temp, I would be instructed to wait on the edge of the exam table with my underwear either off, or to my knees. “Please leave your underwear down so Doctor may examine you,” was almost always followed by an excruciating humiliating 15-30 minute wait in the same room as my mother. He seldom examined anything below my waste, but I had to remain bottomless until he was done discussing my condition with my mother. I felt like livestock at the veterinarian more than I did a person.

Yes many times I felt exposed and excited 😉

Yes on numerous occasions.Once I was undressing to put on my gown and the nurse remembered the room without knocking and I was totally nude facing her and she blushed and began apologizing for it and I laughed saying " guess you got a advance preview of things to come possibly and she said possibly since the physician was also female.Fretter

Sad to say my only experience of this nature was just last month… I went for my annual exam at 3:30 p.m., and at 5 p.m. I was dressed and walking out of the clinic's front doors. They were closing up the office as I left, and the professional building was being locked down too.

I don't know if the doctor had been told that I was there; that was an issue coupled with the fact that neither a technician or Rn checked in with me at all after I was left in the examination room.

Sadly, too, I've written to the doctor first at the office, and then at home, and I've not heard back from her.

Not the way I ever treated a patient… It makes one wonder about the times, and patient care, all in the same breath.

Dr Welby

In an exam room, no. Emergency room yeah. I am unsure how long it was but I was nude for a decent amount of time though I was covered with a blanket.

Almost every time I have ever been in a hospital emergency room for anything I have had to wait, wait, wait and wait after I took of my clothes and was nude. In fact, one time three nurses came in to first examine me and took the sheet that was covering me off. YES, they were all females and I am a male. Fortunately, they did not try to touch me sexually or touch my balls. If they did, I would have probably hollered out really loud, "Don't touch me there, you stupid whores. If I want a whore, I will go find one.

I never really had to wait. My previous doc would review a long list of health questions with me before the actual exam. Once he was done with the questions, he would instruct me to strip down to my underwear (which I never wore for these physicals) and handed me a paper sheet for cover. In less than 5 minutes, he would be back in the room to conduct the full physical.

Never really happened since I was always dressed for the exam, only revealing what was necessary.

When I was a teenager I was examined with my younger brother who was 8 years my junior. Since he was young my mother accompanied us into the exam room until I was 16. Usually the nurse would stay in the room as we undressed to our underpants and the nurse would then proceed to weigh us ,get our height and temperature and BP. So the nurse would get to see us mainly bare. Since there was one chair we would strip down and all our clothes were in one pile. The doctor would examine us and discuss the results with my mother while we were both undressed. We only were allowed to dress after the doctor left. All in all we were probably both in just our briefs for about 30 minutes

Usually at my dermatologist I'm told to undress to my underpants and the wait is only about 5 minutes.

I do remember the first time I visited this dermatologist, the opposite occurred. At the end of exam, he had me take my down my underwear to examine my genitals. I remember slipping my boxers off and placing them on the chair with the rest of my clothes. He did his quick check, but right after that, he engaged in a prolonged conversation with me about the rashes/moles he was concerned with, discussed how often he'd like me to get skin checks and even scheduled my next appointment. All of this while I was entirely naked. At the very end of the conversation, he had me come over toward the sink/table area where he wanted to discuss a free ointment he wanted to give me. I remember getting off the table, covering my penis with one hand and walked towards the area. He showed me the ointment and explained its usage, gave me an appointment card, shook my hand and proceeded to leave. The whole thing felt like 10 minutes and it was the first time I've ever been fully naked for that extent of time. Future appointments were much more brief.

She stays in the room even when I'm pulling my knickers down for my tests. She asks the questions while I'm pulling them down and the only wait really is while I'm stood in front of her with my vulva now bared answering the remaining questions.