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

In general, I have routinely been interviewed after having undressed. It as always the case growing up and has continued with the majority of my doctors. There is something about sitting on the table, my bare bottom touching the exam table's paper, that makes questioning all the more appealing.

I'd love to watch my girlfriend try to give a full sentence answer while the doctor inserts his fingers into her. I suspect she'd at least have to pause.

Being naked while talking to the doctor sounds amazing. It adds intimidation. Sadly I've never experienced it though.

Though never naked, I was greeted, interviewed, and examined in nothing more than a pair of paper exam shorts by my current doctor the first time I met him. This year, I was in my underwear with an ill-fitting gown open in the back.

It's not really intimidating to me to be interviewed while undressed, but it is interesting to consider that my doctor has never seen me dressed.

I have had a number of doctors who stayed in the exam room the whole time, talking while I got undressed, when I was undressed, when I was standing, naked, after the hernia check.

I have had a number of doctors who stayed in the exam room the whole time, talking while I got undressed, .

To me, if the doctor brings you to the exam room, it's better if s/he stays there while you undress. Of course, it would be for unprofessional for them to just stare at you while you did so, as if you were doing a striptease (although i wouldn't mind a lady doc watching 😉 ).

Why do i say it's better if they stay? Ok, how long does it take you to undress, and how long is it before they actually return? How many things do they set out to do in a few minutes, and how many unexpected things occur ? A phone call they choose to take, a receptionist that needs to consult the doc about an issue, they run into someone else & there's a brief stop-n-chat. All these kinds of things can happen. Some of you can even think about in your own jobs how you get sidetracked from working on things.

Now if they stay there, your appointment time becomes minimized & is thus more efficient. You want to believe you served your waiting time in the "waiting room".

This happens pretty much every time. The nurse brings me into the room and instructs me to undress and put on the gown, so that's all I'm wearing the whole time the doctor is there. Definitely heightens the embarrassment.

Yes, exactly it is very common these days. The nurse taking your vitals, bringing you to the exam room and instructing you to take everything off and put on the gown. Then you are waiting for the doctor

Usually, the nurse or assistant do most of the questions with me before saying to get undressed. When the doctor comes in, anything he or she asks me is while I'm undressed.

I did participate in a medical study at a university where a student intern did the screening questionnaire with me, then told me to get undressed before she would take me into the next room for the rest of the study. She left the room while I undressed. When she came back and brought me into the other room, she then realized she had missed a whole page of questions. So, she had me take a seat and we went through those questions while I was sitting there totally naked.

This is the one thing that my doctor does with me fully clothed. I'll get called back by the nurse, get weighed on the way to the exam room. The nurse takes my vitals and then leaves. The doctor comes in and usually has a 10-15 minute discussion with me fully clothed. He doesn't ask me to undress until after the discussion is finished.

This is the one thing that my doctor does with me fully clothed. I'll get called back by the nurse, get weighed on the way to the exam room. The nurse takes my vitals and then leaves. The doctor comes in and usually has a 10-15 minute discussion with me fully clothed. He doesn't ask me to undress until after the discussion is finished.

Does your doctor come in immediately after the nurse leaves? My biggest pet peave with my current doctor is that after the nurse leaves me to undress, I have to wait a good 15-30 minutes for the doctor to come in. That time would certainly be more comfortable and warmer if I stayed dressed, but then again even more time would be wasted if I had to undress with doctor in the room.

Interviewed by a team of interns wearing nothing but a gown

Does your doctor come in immediately after the nurse leaves? My biggest pet peave with my current doctor is that after the nurse leaves me to undress, I have to wait a good 15-30 minutes for the doctor to come in. That time would certainly be more comfortable and warmer if I stayed dressed, but then again even more time would be wasted if I had to undress with doctor in the room.

He usually comes in within about 5-10 minutes of the nurse leaving the room. I remain fully clothed when the doctor comes in the room and during a brief discussion about my general health etc. He asks me to undress at the conclusion of that discussion, leaves the room for a few minutes and returns.

Not recently but as a kid/teenager sometimes. Depending on the doctor.

I am already undressed when the doctor comes in, so yes, I talk to him undressed.

He usually comes in within about 5-10 minutes of the nurse leaving the room. I remain fully clothed when the doctor comes in the room and during a brief discussion about my general health etc. He asks me to undress at the conclusion of that discussion, leaves the room for a few minutes and returns.

This would frustrate me. If undressing is required, it should be done during the time after the nurse leaves and the doctor comes in. At my last physical, I had a 25 minute wait between the nurse leaving and the doctor entering and would have been irritated at another break in order to undress.

I can only guess that your doctor didn't want you to have to be undressed during the history/interview portion of the exam, but it just sounds so inefficient to have 2 waiting periods.

This would frustrate me. If undressing is required, it should be done during the time after the nurse leaves and the doctor comes in. At my last physical, I had a 25 minute wait between the nurse leaving and the doctor entering and would have been irritated at another break in order to undress.

I can only guess that your doctor didn't want you to have to be undressed during the history/interview portion of the exam, but it just sounds so inefficient to have 2 waiting periods.

I agree, there is definitely a lack of efficiency there, but I would much rather be dressed during the discussion portion. The time between the doctor leaving the room while I undress to when he returns is maybe 2 minutes, considering that I came from work and was in professional business attire, it takes most of that 2 minutes to completely undress, so it's not really a wait at all.

I agree, there is definitely a lack of efficiency there, but I would much rather be dressed during the discussion portion. The time between the doctor leaving the room while I undress to when he returns is maybe 2 minutes, considering that I came from work and was in professional business attire, it takes most of that 2 minutes to completely undress, so it's not really a wait at all.

That doesn't sound inefficient at all. My experience has always been that when anyone leaves the exam room and I'm told "so and so will be right in," they're never "right in" and another waiting period ensues. I suppose that's to be expected at such a large group practice with shared nurses and dozens of patients at any one time.

That doesn't sound inefficient at all. My experience has always been that when anyone leaves the exam room and I'm told "so and so will be right in," they're never "right in" and another waiting period ensues. I suppose that's to be expected at such a large group practice with shared nurses and dozens of patients at any one time.

I've been in situations before when "a few minutes" becomes 25 minutes of waiting. This is a large, group internal medicine practice. I think in this case he is literally just stepping out into the hallway for 2 minutes and coming back in, as opposed to seeing another patient, etc.

Even when I was younger,my mother would just say-go ahead and take off all your clothes,so the nurse can get your accurate weight.I was then sitting on the exam table nude.I was weighed and measures me then I am instructed to get on the table and to lie on my front.and she lubes my rear & takes a rectal temp.I then am told to put my underwear back on and wait for the doctor.A female ped.

Since my original post of this question, my experience with this has changed. At my last physical, the nurse told me to undress to my underwear and left me to undress and wait on the exam table for the doctor. I'm not sure if she said that he would be "right in" but he wasn't right in. It was not as long a wait as the time before but it was maybe 10 minutes after I was undressed to my briefs and sitting on the table. For me, it doesn't take longer than a minute or two to get undressed.

There is not anything to do while waiting except looking around the room. I didn't see anything sitting out on the counter that indicated that the room had been prepped for my physical, such as a tube of lube, exam glove, or anything like that. That hasn't always been true, as I have certainly seen a tube of lube on the counter before, but not the glove.

Anyway, the doctor came in and interviewed for maybe 20 minutes before beginning the exam. I had met this doctor before even though this was a first physical by him. So it wasn't completely like meeting an unfamiliar doctor for the first time in my underwear only. I didn't feel awkward about it. I have been undressed to my briefs only for more exams in my life than in a gown but being interviewed while undressed first has been rare.

I mentioned below the first time I had an exam with a new doctor years ago when I was already undressed and in a gown only and he came in, introduced himself for the first time, and then interviewed me. For some reason, I felt awkward about that because I had never met him before and it seemed like an odd way to meet a new patient that the doctor might expect to see for years. Totally different than a sports physical when I was in school. Those were done by doctors I didn't know and had never met before too but they weren't my regular doctors, I didn't think about seeing them even though it was probably almost the same doctors who did those exams most years. The whole group exam process is really mechanical and impersonal. A big difference between an assembly group exam with all of us lined up in our underpants and an individual exam in a doctor's office.

Davidwest, I find it interesting that you are at ease being undressed in front of a doctor while interviewed except for the first visit. At least for me, visits to the doctor are so rare that I wouldn't feel any more comfortable being interviewed in my underwear by the same doctor for the second or third visit than I would the first visit.

I do have to say that it is strange that my current doctor has never seen me in pants or even a shirt. I suppose if I ever saw him for something other than a physical, he'd see me dressed, but as long as I stay healthy, he's only going to see me for yearly physicals.

What I found hopeful is that the doctor whom Davidwest saw has gone from the use of a gown back to having a male patient in his underwear only. Perhaps this will be the new old.

As for speaking with a doctor other than during the steps of a physical while undressed, this was common in NYC when no assistant/nurse was used. You would get undressed while the doctor went over history updates, flow into the physical, flow into the recap, dressed, undressing, undressed, redressed.

The practice problem is that if a doctor steps in to chat, leaves so a patient can get undressed, he/she (returns a phone call, goes into his/her office to do something, gets asked something by someone on staff in the hallway, gets asked to look at another patient) and the patient can simply be sitting, undressed, waiting.

I don't know that my current doctor has ever used gowns for male patients. I'm still kind of a new patient at his office so no long history of seeing him to know what he might have done before. So maybe he is not going back to anything.

My last several doctors have been the "strip to your shorts only" kind for physicals. It has been years since I was in a gown for a physical exam. My dermatologist uses exam gowns and I'm told to take everything off including underwear by the nurse. I don't see doctors often. Basically an internist almost every year and a dermatologist every year or two so lucky that way. The last doctor that I remember requiring me to wear a gown was also the one who I met for the first time after I was undressed completely and in the gown. Before that, I had a doctor who also required gowns but also had me keep my briefs on too. He is the only one who has required the "gown and underwear" combo. He did a rectal exam too so not sure what the point of having me keep my briefs on was.

I don't know that I care that much anymore but it has seemed awkward in the past for a doctor to meet me for the first time when I'm already undressed. As an adult, I mean. As a kid, I had no expectation that the doctor would see me first dressed and then have me undress. I really had no expectations at all because the routine as a kid was always the same whether it was in a doctor's office, the base clinic, or a group physical. I was always undressed first and then saw the doctor. I don't even remember a doctor asking me a question during those years unless I was sick. Not even as a teen although almost all my physicals during those years were group physicals where I was just another kid in a long line of kids.

Except for maybe a couple of doctors after I wasn't a kid, my docs haven't usually appeared, interviewed me, told me to get undressed, and then stepped out of the room while I did that. For the couple of docs that I remember doing that, I thought it was strange for one since all he told me was to strip to my underwear while he stepped out. Not sure why he thought that was necessary since he could have stayed in the room for the entire minute that it took me to undress to my briefs. The other doctor experience with that was where the doctor interviewed me first, told me to take everything off and put on the exam gown and he would be back in a few. i remember that doctor well because he was really explicit about "taking everything off". He said "take everything off, including your underwear, socks, and jewelry". Then he left while I did that. Kind of glad that he did because it was my first time to wear an exam gown and I didn't know how to get it tied in the back right so was standing nude in the middle of the room trying to figure the thing out. Finally got the top string tied, but couldn't get the one halfway down my back tied so figured "to heck with it" and just sat on the exam table with the back half open. I didn't know exactly what was coming but I figured that he was probably going to see everything anyway. And of course he did as he was quickly using his stethoscope on my back to check my lungs and he even untied the top string for that part.

"davidwest"

In France, I have never seen a doctor who gave me a gown.

Normally as an adult I am first asked to answer questions about my health or the reasons of my coming and then told to undress bare chest or until underwear according to my answers. I have not noticed that the doctor went out while I was undressing. I guess that it could happen rather in a medical clinic. Generally he stayed sitting and wrote something on papers or looked at me while I undressed.

At cursory examinations for job which were generally compulsory, it was depending on the facilities, but I had never been given a gown and I was instructed when I was young or for a first examination in a new job with a new doctor to strip completely most of the time before any questions, and after being more an adult man to strip in underwear at least at the beginning of the examination to end sometimes in the nude, but on the reverse of my years of young adult after the questions,

I had to undress either in a small room, either directly in the examination room,

It was depending also if there was a nurse or only a doctor.

As a child or teenager, It was very seldom that I had to undress completely at a doctor's family, most often only bare chest, seldomly in briefs and only one time naked for the last part of the examination, but we had every year of school a compulsory examination performed by the nurse and the school doctor, and at high school, our superviser in the waiting room who was our Pe teacher, a former military man, instructed all the group of high school boys, about 15 teenagers, to undress in white briefs like at middle school ( it was the only kind of underwear of boys at that time ) and to wait, until we were the next to be examined and then to remove our briefs and stand like in attention stark naked in front of the door until the previous boy exited and we were called by the nurse. So we were naked for all the examination in front of the nurse and the doctor, both women, and sometimes a young nursing female student who did a training course at the school nurse office.

It was quite the same at compulsory examinations for sport or for a summer camp since the examinations were generally performed in group or at least with undressing in group, either first in briefs, either stark naked immediately

i don,'t talk of draft physicals which were at my time performed in group and stark naked for the most time.

As an adult when I go to a dermatologist, he does not give me a gown, he tells me to undress in underwear and bare feet or I am told by a nurse to strip in the nude in a small locker room if I go to a medical center for an annual check up which is free of charge one day by year.

I would say interview is done first and then undressed to underwear. Some questions while in underwear but only as part of the exam.

Even when I was younger,my mother would just say-go ahead and take off all your clothes,so the nurse can get your accurate weight.I was then sitting on the exam table nude.I was weighed and measures me then I am instructed to get on the table and to lie on my front.and she lubes my rear & takes a rectal temp.I then am told to put my underwear back on and wait for the doctor.A female ped.

I hope you know that there are discussions here based in fact and others that are fantasy. It will behoove you to figure out the difference and contribute appropriately.

I have had both situations occur. Interviewed while fully dressed and while in gown and eveh while just in my boxer briefs

There's a flow chart. Vital signs are taken by perhaps a nurse. You aren't going to see the doctor prior to that. That over, chart on the door, the doctor signaled. In comes the doctor, in part to confirm the reason for the visit, hear anything else, so as to focus the appointment. Someone in administration likely pointed out that doctors would be more efficient doing something, rather than not making good use of the total time allotted each day to patients undressing. Or there's a reality: if you are in conversation with someone in a locker room, isn't there a point in mutual undressing that each of you stops looking at the other?

I have already described my first appointment with my new dermatologist wherein I was nude for the entire examination. i.e. from the moment he walked in till the end of the exam.

When I returned the following year for my annual skin check up once again I decided to remove all my clothing before he entered. It was a different exam room this time--somewhat larger and with more natural light present. This time he did somewhat 'react' to my nudity, as if he wasn't expecting to see me so exposed like that--but now that I think of it we'd only met once before a year previous, and so he might not have remembered me just by knowing my name. Anyway, I'm getting to my point here. He sat directly facing me (I was propped on the table with my legs hanging over the side and he started the exam with the interview. And I have to say all the things he mentioned, general things about good habits to maintain for good health were all very intelligent, very practical, very thoughtful. I follow his advice. The conversation lasted for about 5 minutes and I really enjoyed sitting there nakedly displayed in front of him but not pruriently-just very matter of fact. My appointment this year is April 1. You have to book months in advance! I requested the last appointment of the day because I really do have certain skin issues I want to have addressed and basically I want/need to be looked at from top to bottom and everywhere in between.

At my last physical I was nude, I had gained weight and the gown was too small for me so the nurse told just stay nude and the doctor will be right in. I had my physical and after he was giving me like a lecture on my weight while I was standing there in front of him naked. It really did not bother me that I was naked. I go back for a follow next week and I am sure I will be nude again, the nurse took my height and weight with me being nude.