Windows in exam rooms

At my wife's OBGYN, the exam rooms have a window towards the top of the wall. They have a drape covering the window so even if it was up slightly it would be hard to see into the exam room.

I have to say, i can´t remember any exam rooms, which had NO windows. Most of the exam rooms at the doctor´s offices, at the public healt office, at the clinic, at the military and the company physical exams, which I can remeber, had windows, but they were mostly covered by a store or a kind of jalousy and I can remember rarely, that I could see other people outside. More often I remember open doors in the offices and other patients and people looking inside the room through the open doors.

Most of the exam rooms I can remember are in the middle of the building with no outside wall. I'm not sure what the rooms along the buildings outside wall are used for. Sometimes the waiting room is on the outside wall and has windows looking toward the street, but it seems that all exam rooms I can remember are in the center of the building and no windows in them.

All my docs I see now have windows with blinds on them. Lets in some light and no one can see in unless they are on a ladder or something.

Any of the offices that we go to that have windows have blinds on them that are closed.

Since this post was put up I started thinking about this as I visit clinics, doctors offices, and hospitals and I think architecture ideas have changed over the decades. Older clinics and doctors offices have outside exam rooms with windows that are frosted or with sheers and even older ones have high up windows that are strips. Newer places are all interior without windows.

I went to a new gynecologist last week, which is on the third floor of a medical bldg. To my horror, the exam table was facing a huge window which overlooks a residential neighborhood. I really was freaked out, I thought anybody with a pair of binoculars could see in. But maybe it was one-way glass, like fetfan10 mentioned in the previous post. I'm going back for a follow-up in a few weeks - if I get the same room again I'm going to take a picture. 😄

But maybe it was one-way glass...

Just to be sure, you should provide us with the office address so we can assess for ourselves... From the outside, of course. 😉

At my ex's gyno, there were windows in every exam room, however they were always covered with blinds. When the clinic is closed, the blinds are pulled open. I couldn't imagine what it would be like for a woman to have a Monday morning first appt of the day....only to realize when a she's getting dressed that the blinds were left open.....especially since the business end of the table faces the parking lot.

My last doctor has windows in this exam rooms but they are like frosted so you can only see shapes and not detail. I bet you could tell if someone was standing naked in the room from outside, but you would be able to see who it was, or even details like a penis or pubic hair.

This post brought back memories and I realize this happened to me before. When I was 15, I went to the doctor for a regular check-up When it came time for the genital exam, he told me to stand up by a window and drop my pants and underwear. It was a large clear-glass window and he actually OPENED the curtains to let more light in. I assume he wanted to see it better.

I remember I was a bit concerned about being seen as this was a one-story building. But it all went pretty fast. He looked at it for about 5 seconds, didn’t really touch anything and said everything was fine.

Our family doctor has an interior exam room, no windows in any of his rooms except the waiting room. It must have been expressly modified like this, since he lives in and uses an old 19th century house.

I've noticed that in most hospitals, especially the newly built ones, exam rooms are also usually on the inside of the building, with no windows facing the exterior walls. The corridors are on the exterior walls with windows galore.

A dermatologist my wife went to once however, had a huge bay window in her office, opening up to a very large inner city yard, something not that common in our densely built urban areas. To compensate for the nice natural light, she did have a folding screen to conduct exams behind, so none of the neighbors had a view. I also think she had some kind of very discrete, modern type blinds that from the outside looking in, would deflect anyone's views.

On a personal note, I love the feeling that, once upon a time, I must have experienced in a doctor's office when just prior to an exam, the blinds or curtains are pulled into position and you are suddenly in a darker, more intimate feeling room, instead of in the bright sunlight ... the change in atmosphere is marked and simultaneously ominous and also holds a hint of possible indignities about to be committed to one's feelings of decorum. It's also a hint that some clothes at least, are going to be removed in the newly created privacy of the exam room.

Now, this hasn't happened to me in a long while, but as I'm writing now, describing this, the memory of these feelings is very strong ... either I have an overactive imagination from fantasizing too much, or else it's something from the past, the way doctor's offices were built back then.

The exam rooms of my GP and of my Gyn have all windows in there. But all of them have curtains so no one from the outside can look in.

The only windowed exam room I've ever been in was at a dentist's office. I think it's standard procedure to not design office exam rooms with windows anymore.

My doctor's office has a small narrow, horizontal window at the top of the room but for someone to look in, they'd have to be about 10 feet tall.

My doctor's office is on the fourth floor of a medical center. His exam rooms all have windows in them but they have blinds on them. The nurse makes sure that they are closed before I start getting undressed.

A former doctor of mine had a shot table positioned at the window of his first floor surgery, presumably so that patients bending over for injections could view the street scene below as a diversion. I often looked up at that window from the street hoping to see the face of a young lady so I could at least visualise her bending over bare-bottomed for a shot.

My GP's practice is in a large two storey converted Victorian/Georgian villa, there are consulting rooms on both floors all of which have large windows, some of them "bay" type windows and in some rooms the examination couch does face the window. The windows have vertical blinds on them but they are never closed, but modesty is maintained as in the lower half of the windows the glass is frosted, with clear glass in the upper half. I don't think any of the buildings surrounding it have windows in such a position that anyone could see in through the upper half.

My GP's office has frosted glass windows at the top of the rooms facing the door.

Every exam room I've been in has been on the first floor, and the windows were always covered by translucent mini-blinds.

Mine had windows and doctor didn't shut curtains,was on second floor but pretty sure I could have been seen had someone been in building opposite! haha

All of MDs rooms have windows, but they are covered with blinds. My gf new gyno also had a window in her exam room on the first floor but it had blinds and a curtain over it.

Petty sure most ground floor will have covered though .. shame lol 😜

So this topic came fresh in my mind today when I walked into the surgeons exam room. I was sent for a full up after hernia repair. The doctor seemed like he was older than my grandfather, but he had about the same demeanor about him, that set me easy. He asked me to have a seat in the chair next to his desk while he logged into the computer system. I sat there looking at the 4 windows along the opposing wall. The one near the exam bed was blocked out with a pulled curtain shade. The second one was shaded most of the way. With the lower section of the window being about waist level. I sat there in my chair looking out the window and across the lawn to the adjacent building wondering if the people in the other building could see in to this exam room. The doctor and I went over my pain issues. He then asked me to stand up in front of him.

He had me raise up on my toes and drop down, Repeat. Now lower yourself quickly and hard. He then had me turn sideways, then face him. He asked me to step back and then made the gesture. I quickly looked to my side and I was on the border of the second and third window. The third and fourth windows were wide open, no blinds or curtains pulled. They were there, just not in use. I undid my belt. He motioned me to hurry up.

I dropped my jeans down. He sat back as he noticed I was not wearing underwear. He then poked here and there asking if I could feel this or that. He dragged his finger across different sections of my pubic area, the side of my penis, my testicles, my inner thighs and back up to the pubic area. He then rolled his chair closer and did the general hernia tests asking me to cough. I turned my head towards the windows and sure enough my mid section was level with the gap in the window coverings. I again thought about the people who work in the building across the way. The doctor than has me turn to the side as he tells me to turn and face the secretaries in the next building. He repeated the hernia check exam. He then had me turn back towards him. He did another poke and slide of my skin followed by a request I turn and face the wall. He repeated the exam and held me as he scoped me from the side, almost like he was seeing if I was standing up straight or was square and plumb.

He told me to face him one last time before he sat back in his chair looking at my penis before telling me to pull up my pants and have a seat. The whole time he talked to me, I kept starring out the window trying to see if I could see anyone in the other building. I could not, that means they could not see me.

Not that I would care. ;-)

Yes all the docs I visited had offices with windows... and soft or heavy curtains

Yes, windows with blinds.

Yes, some of my doctors have windows in the exam rooms. On the ground floor, the blinds are always drawn. Sometimes in offices that are several floors up, the blinds were open.

I had this in an exam room at the hospital and I felt Really Bad giving a few nurses a nice view. NOT!

Recently, I have gone to see a dermatologist, it was a special day where some dermatologists in medical centers were available for a free examination of the skin, it was the annual day agaist the skin diseases, especially the skin cancer.

after a short waiting and having given my name to a female receptionist, I was called by a female dermatologist to examin me She told me to enter in her office, and I was asked by her to remove immediately all my clothes ( first in the waiting room, we filled a form where it was asked if we agreed to be examined stark naked because it was necessary for a full examination by the doctor and I have mentioned "yes" on the form, and she had read it.)

Once naked, she told me to come in front of her and I noticed at that while that the curtain was not closed and that we were just face to an other building with large windows like those of the examination room.

It was on the third floor of a building. Like the street was not very wide, It was obvious that a person could se me from the other building on the other side of the street.

Fortunately, there was nobody to watch at my examination.

I do not know if she knew that there was nobody or she did not care and I was lucky?

At my college health clinic, the exam room was on the ground floor and you could see through the blinds. But there was a lake on the other side.