Interviewed by the doctor while undressed to underwear or in a gown?

As an adult, the doctor has always discussed my history with me before asking me to undress. As a kid, the doctor would always refer to me in the third person with my mother while I was there, “can you strip him to his underpants for me please?” and would then discuss me with my mother while I was stripped down to my briefs or boxers before starting to examine me.

I have had four primary care physicians over my half century adult life. Two were for short periods of time (4-5 years) before I moved. One was for 27 years (again I moved) and my current one is going on 17 years. I have little recollection of the first doc, but the other short duration doc did talk to me in his office before sending me to the exam room. I have a clear recollection that at the other two docs, I was naked under sheet (perhaps still with underpants) before he came in to talk with me, if I was undergoing a full physical. For other things, colds, etc. I was dressed at first.

I did have this happen to me as an adult. I had moved to a different city and needed to find a new Dr. I arranged for a office visit not a physical. I was around 32-35. I saw him about 4 times that year for medication and controlling cholesterol and type II diabetes. The fifth time I checked into the office I was advised this would be a full physical due to the 4 previous times seeing him. The nurse took my vitals and ushered me into the exam room. She did not advise anything and just that the Dr. was running behind so please be patient. After 30 mins he knocks at the door.

“Hey Robert!” Looks like its time for your physical. You don't look ready yet? Strip down to your shorts and hop on the table while I review the chart."

He sat down as I started to take my shoes and socks off and then when I was taking off my shirt he looked over and said

“You might as well take the undershirt and shorts off as well as I need to check everything!”

I was a little taken back since I had not have this type of Dr. visit from him prior. He was about 70 at the time.

Most if not all of my physicals started with immediately undressing to underwear only. Then the first part before the weighing etc started was some small talk and the interview, while I was seated in underwear opposite his/her desk or in some cases I had to stand in underwear next to his desk while he watched me over from his desk.

As a kid and my teen years, I always got undressed in my undies. The nurse would bring my mother and I back to the exam room and have me undress to my undies. The scale was in the exam room so the nurse would do the weight, the height and my temp. (anal temp) and my mother would be sitting in the chair watching holding my clothes as she folded them up.

Once the doctor arrived, he would speak to my mother and examine me thoroughly in front of my mother and I always had a sensitive penis so I would get erection and most of the times ejaculate.

As an adult, my clothes are on with the exception of going to my urologist, I get undressed there in my undies and then a gown. The nurse only really does the basics…my weight and height and blood pressure and tells me to wait for the urologist. When he comes into the room, he removes my gown and starts the exam as I am in my undies and I lay down and he removes them and has me spread my legs a bit and examines my penis. I still have a very sensitive penis but I don't get the erections as I use to get.

As a kid and during my teenage years most of the interviewing occurred as the exam progressed. Many of the questions were asked with my shirt off and pants removed while just in briefs sitting forward and laying supine on the exam table. Some questions were even asked with my briefs lowered around my knees while she examined my testicles, shaft and glans as a distraction mechanism.

During a play exam I like to be interviewed at the beginning of the exam, possibly clothed. But I like also when the Doctor continue the interview during the first part of the examination.

I prefer docs who start while i am dressed. then he/she wants to examine me and I have to put out one part after the other. at last I have only the slip ad have to lay onto the table. -While examin mybelly the doc moves my slip sep by step down. so he/she can examine my groin and genitals. if there is an assistant he/she moves the slip off and leedy me ti the enema.

I've always done the talking with my doctor in my underwear. Usually the nurse was the one who told me to undress to my underwear. I like the feeling of being exposed to a clothed man and having no choice to answer his questions especially when he starts the exam.

Dr Nash always begins the exam by asking questions while the patient is dressed. The can help the nervous patient calm down a bit and then, with careful timing, redirect the thoughts that he is about to receive a comprehensive exam. Simple questions like “Did you review the questionnaire,” “Have you looked at the medical form your (school, office, etc.) is requiring me to fill out?" can all be great ways to set the framework for moving forward. The signal can also be done by adding a BP check at intermittent times - again, the goal of Dr Nash is to guide the patient closer and closer to the fact that he is about to be examined.

“Let's start your exam by getting your height and weight measurements. I need you to undress … ”

I would like to have to get completely naked while the doctor starts talking and sit there naked while being interviewed. But I have always had a gown on during the interview.

When I had my gallbladder out The nurse called me back to pre surgery prep area She said to my girlfriend she could come back if she wanted to. She followed me back and the nurse handed me a gown and socks to put on and told me everything off and pulled the curtains. I didn't have a problem with being naked in front of my girlfriend but thought it was a bit odd for the nurse to be there. She said she was going go get my I v ready and stepped out. I quickly got undressed and my girlfriend was making jokes. When the nurse came back I laid down on the bed and she did the usual vitals and made small talk with my girlfriend Like I was not even there. She started asking me the questions when did you last take meds eat etc. Then she asked if I had followed the prep I kinda grumply said yes and my girlfriend said stop being so grumpy you should have seen him this morning when I woke him up and snapped on gloves and said enema time! the nurse and my girlfriend had a good laugh I was beet red. The doctor came in and briefed me on what the surgery would be like and before I knew he pulled up my gown to my chest and started to make marks on my stomach on the sites where the cuts or holes were going to be. I was horrified when I started to get a bit hard and all eyes were on me like I was a fish about to carved up.

When I perform a normal examination the patient is dressed in the beginning, also when discussing the answers in the questionary. After that he/she can undress to the undies (males) or bra and panties (females).

I must say that I have had patients for a second or third examination and I let some of them undress right of the start and only wear a large towel of bathrobe. Which was a nice experience to let them open it and see them nude right away.

Sometimes I let a patient sit down again at my desk, being nude, and discuss the results of the exam until then. After discussing it, the examination continued. The female patient enjoyed that a lot (and me too of course).

I get undressed before my doctor comes in so he always interviews me either in my underwear or naked me in a gown

Has happened a couple times, but I think almost always, for me, happens at end of exam.

@Clarkeston Exact same for me. But the most intimate questions come when I've taken everything off.

I prefer that I am dressed for the preliminary question and answer sessions with my providers. It levels the power imbalance that is about to come and reminds me that I'm in charge of my healthcare and the doc is a member of my team, not the other way around. I don't mind the power imbalance during the exam, because there really isn't any other way for it to work and I am kinky enough to find it erotic. But I would prefer to start things off with a level playing field. And I absolutely believe in shared decision making. I want my providers to lay out options and I want @Deviant1 to help me do research and understand the options, but the final decisions are mine. I am the owner of the team.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always happen that way in regards to being dress during the pre-exam discussions. Most of my providers have their various assistants tell me to get undressed before the provider even enters the room. I have only refused to do so when it happens at an initial visit, mostly because once I get to know a provider it is maybe less of an issue.

I was often interview undressed or while undressing as part of the medical study that I was part of

I I am being interviewed by the Medical Assistant, I am dressed. If I am being interviewed by my primary care doctor or urologist, I am already undressed and in a gown or drape.

Seems my doc does not have the time to wait for me to get dressed and then discuss their findings in their comfortable office; so they do it while I'm in the exam room. Bugs me a bit, but as long as the doc is good otherwise, I'll live it.

I remember quite a few years back they had privacy curtain where you would undress and change into a gown. The doctor was usually in the room asking questions, reviewing meds etc while I changed. Only recall this a very few times. Back then the nurse only took temp and BP - the doc reviewed all the meds etc. plus they didn't have all those stupid medicare questions!!

I remember quite a few years back they had privacy curtain where you would undress and change into a gown.

Most recent primary care doc visit wife and I went to together a few weeks ago; there was no changing into a gown like in years past. Now we keep our clothes on and doc lifted or went under our tops (they were loose fitting) to listen to our heart or feel around.

It happens all the time because in my gp practice like many I have been to, you undress in front of the dr and never have a gown. It happen from day one so it is treated as normal, but I suspect it might be difficult it it happened to someone from the states.

It happens all the time because in my gp practice like many I have been to, you undress in front of the dr and never have a gown.

@SouthernAnn

I was at my GP's a couple of weeks ago for the 'flu jab, and I noticed that the examination couch in the nurses room where women have their smear tests done was in the middle of the room and had no curtain. So clearly women have to take their knickers off in front of the nurse as they prepare to have their test done. The examination beds in the GP rooms are normally along one wall but again no curtain, and certainly no gowns are ever used…

@Doctor_Rob I like your approach, especially the discussion of the exam results at your desk completely naked, very exciting and humiliating.

Kind of yes. I had to have a testical check at a urology clinic and was seen by a nurse practitioner who introduced herself as Charlotte. She seemed to be comfortable with nudity, others not hers! And seemed to enjoy her work which obviously involved examining men in various states of undress. She was accompanied by a young nurse called Cara who was blonde and looked angelic, I think she acted as chaperone as she did nothing at all.

Charlotte asked me to stand and remove my jeans whilst she snapped on a pair of latex gloves and came out from behind the desk. Cara remained sitting next to the desk and silently observed. Charlotte now standing in front of me looked me in the eye with a cheeky look on her face said I am now going to examine you and without further ado had pulled my pants down. She then cupped my testicals and asked me to cough. She repeated this several times. Then she rolled my left testical between her fingers. This went on for about a minute or so before she moved to the right one which I was feeling pain in. Standing in just my socks and long tee shirt with my pants down in front of two attractive women, one in her early twenties I guess and the other mid thirties, caused me to get slightly aroused. Charlotte noticed, chuckled a little and said do not worry it is normal. She then gently rolled my right testical between her fingers but said she could not feel anything untoward but that she would like a second opinion. Without further ado she left the room with me standing in front of the desk and Cara still sitting beside it. I pulled my pants back up quickly. Cara smiled and said try not to worry.

Charlotte then returned with a young woman in a white coat who looked like she had south Asian heritage and introduced herself as Dr Upadye. I would guess her age as late twenties. Charlotte explained what the problem was and that she wanted a second opinion. Dr Upadye said lets have a look and asked me to remove my pants and tee shirt. I must have looked startled as Charlotte said they will only get in the way and there is no need to be shy as they were all professionals. I did as I was asked turning away to put my clothes with my jeans. I turned around wearing only my socks with my hands covering my modesty and found Dr Upadye standing in front of the desk with Charlotte perched on it to Dr Upadye's right and Cara still sitting beside it to Dr Upadye's left.

Charlotte said oh dear I think you have stagefright in front of us three women, dont worry just move your hands away. Dr Upadye then repeated what Charlotte had done, except she was bare handed, and said there was nothing apparently wrong. She then stood back and with me still nude explained I should leave any self exam for a month and then check for lumps explaining the difference in feeling between cysts and tumours telling me to return to my doctors if I was still in pain after a month. This took about 5 minutes with me still nude at which point she said I could dress and go as she washed her hands!

I would love to answer initial questions while nude (it's only right to be open while you're being open) but typically the nurse asks for all of that stuff (I really think people should regularly undress for that portion! Is a blood pressure cuff outside of my shirt really working? Should I be weighed with all of my keys and boots and wallet full of change?). However, after the exam is basically over, I am still sitting naked discussing the findings, followup, etc. This can last a decent amount of time.

At the start i’m told to strip to my underwear and instructed to sit on the table and the doctor will ask me a few things. During the exam he takes my underwear off and at the end he tells me what’s up and what while i’m nude then tells me I can redress

I find it completely depends on the doctor and the situation. i also find there are multiple sets of questions. Those at the start before anything is removed and those that happen during the exam either as the doctor or nurse is doing something or some type of a pause. For example most of the qustions about sexual or urinate issues happen near the end … which usually get answered in a way that means there won’t be a check (my current doc doesn’t do those exams in asymptotic patients.)

in a play setting I would expect questions to be in underwear or perhaps some when nude to help increase the anxiety or embarassment. Especially since it is difficult to hide arousal.

The doctor that my father took me to for my college physical actually examined me nude while sitting on the table because while I was undressing before the doctor came in my father told me that I had to take off my boxer shorts for my physical. This was back in the day (early 1970s) when nude physical exams were not uncommon. When the doctor was done with me he and my dad talked it up a bit before telling me I could get dressed.