Any other guys feel embarrassed wearing only underwear?

After eight or more years in medical school female doctors get over the eroticism of seeing guys in underware or even nude. If they work in a corporate medical office they have so many minutes to see a patient and are measured on this by management. Its all about money! Ask anyone who works for Aurora or Humana two of the largest players in hospital and medical offices ownership. Also withj many lesbians in medicine now why would they really care about a guy in underware or nide.

Medical school is 4 years. Where did you come up with the impression that sexual orientation has ANYTHING to do with professional behavior?

I think the definition of medical school needs to be determined before saying how long it is.

Here in Belgium it is 7 years of specific study assigned to graduating as a medical doctor of the lowest rung - specializations take longer of course and even to be accredited as a family doctor/general practitioner an extra 3 years is needed.

I think the misunderstandings come from the preparatory years which in many countries include courses that are common for other degrees as well - dentistry, biochemistry, pharmacy and so on ... often the first 3 or 4 years all have common classes so these are sometimes not counted as 'medical school' ... even though you do need to complete them in order to graduate as a full fledged doctor.

I've heard the same thing about 'law school' as well, which is sometimes said to be 2 years. While here it is 5 and which considering the amount of knowledge necessary, I do not see being completed in less. The same goes for medical school.

This is just a confusion of terms.

Both the poster and I are from the US. Here, after graduation with a Batchelor degree, you go to medical school for 4 years to graduate with an MD or DO. After that, you work as a licensed resident physician preparing for your optional specialty board exams.

What kind of bachelor's degree would one need to go to medical school then? Surely it would have to be something very specifically tailored to be able to complete med school. You surely couldn't get a bachelors in sociology for instance and then continue on to med school without being absolutely lost or needing additional courses?

I don't want to nitpick over what are after all just conventions of nomenclature, call the last 4 years med school, call what comes before something else or the same, or whatever ... but physical did say 8 years of medical school and that would be the same amount of time as elsewhere ... or maybe by saying med school is 4 years it sounds easier than it is?

It's still going to take 7 to 8 or more years before you graduate and get to practice the profession.

For me I feel awkward and embarrassed regardless if the doctor is male or female.... On saying that i've never had a COMPLETE physical by a female doctor....

I know physicians with BA degrees and BS degrees. There are certain pre-med classes that increase your chances of being accepted, but there is no undergraduate medical school.

Nope. If I am in my boxers and being examined by my female doctor, then it doesnt bother me one bit. Same exact feeling as being nude. I know when I am in boxers that I will eventually become nude, so I am not worried about it.

I have had the experience of being stripped down to my briefs for both male and female doctors. Being in briefs in front of a doctor who is completely dressed puts the patient in his place-- humbled and humiliated. It is the pondering about and waiting for the point at which the doctor orders the briefs to be dropped down to expose the genitalia that is the real source of embarrassment and total loss of power.

Not really. When you've slept in an open barracks with 80 other guys, showered with them in a room with a couple of dozen shower heads and nothing else, and used a head with no doors on the stalls, or a slit trench latrine in the field, and are trained to follow orders from both male and female officers, especially Medical Officers, you loose any sense of modesty very quickly.

For the few times I have had a female doctor, it has never been issue to be standing or sitting there in my briefs. My only problem is producing a wet spot on the briefs, which she or my current male doctor have never said anything which is professional. Even when I had to drop the briefs for a female doctor, it really never phased me even though I was semi erect and dripping. She did what she had to do and moved on to the next procedure.

Depends on the situation, I guess. Sometimes yes; sometimes no. Mostly it depends on whether the nurse is present when I begin to undress. If she's there, I invariably get hard almost immediately. If not, I don't generally get hard in just my underwear. Go figure................

Yes, embarrassing with any level of undress. By nature, underwear isn't what's normally seen - and it actually has the potential of showing my arousal, or the effects of it to the doc.

I don't know about being embarrassed but nervous and excited both. I feel more uncomfortable if the doctor were a man. I guess you could say I am a homophobe but I feel much better with a female seeing me in my underware or naked and touching my body. My heart begins to race when a female doctor wants me to lower my underware. Somtimes I start to blush when she pulls my underware down or when she touches my genitals.

There is no embarrassment in front of a lady doc as I am habituated since childhood.... my pediatrician was a lady who saw my naked penis from a baby to an adolescent stage, and later I went to a lady doc..... as I am very comfortable with them with or without any underpants.

I used to feel embarrassed at having to strip to my underwear for physical exams but somehow in my team years that feeling of embarrassment I began to feel was quite a turn on regardless of the doctor gender.

No embarrassment, it is the proper attire for the occasion.

You wouldn't feel embarrassed in a suit and tie at a wedding, or in a swimsuit at the beach or local pool. Those are proper attire for the occasion.

There is enough stuff to worry about without creating additional worries.

And why would the gender of the doctor make any difference in the world?

Actually I don't feel embarrassed.

That's the way all exams should be conducted

I do feel profoundly embarrassed. It is because of the dominant-submissive aspect of the situation. I have to be undressed to my underpants while the doctor, nurse all get to keep their clothes on.

No embarrassment but I have had only male doctors for physical exams so not sure how embarrassed I might be will a female examiner if I was in underpants only. I grew up in a time when boys were allowed very little modesty and we had no expectation of it. So sitting on an exam table in the doctor's office in briefs only is something that has happened since I was a kid. No reason to have a different feeling about it now. The doctor has seen guys that way a thousand times and it makes practical sense for an exam. I suppose a young guy now who has been given a lot of privacy growing up or did not grow up with brothers or having to shower after PE could have a different feeling about stripping down to underpants only for an exam. Guys make up a lot of reasons not to go to the doctor for a checkup. Maybe this is one of them although they don't know before they go that first time to a new doctor how much they have to undress.

I'd rather wear just underwear instead of a gown, as my female doctor gives me a choice of either a gown or just underwear.

It's funny when you think about how female patients are given much more modesty with a gown and a drape. A male doctor would lose his license if he asked a female patient to remove everything but her panties.

When I think of the number of people that I have been naked with, being in my underwear, or even naked, in front of my doctor is not embarrassing in the least. I'm a nudist whenever I can legally do so, so any excuse to get out of my clothes is used. So if my doctor tells me to strip, it's by his own choice that chooses not to get comfortable with me.

I think the cause of any embarrassment would be more about how you feel about your body and your mindset of being naked (or almost naked) with others.

It doesn't bother me for they are doctors and have seen most of it anyway.

No I dont feel embarrassed being in my underear during a physical. In fact I have total confidence in my doctor and if he says "drop-em" then thats cool with me. Having had prostate problems and hemorrhoid problems I have gone well past ever being embarrassed.

I've seen a male urologist, I wore a gown with boxes. He promptly lifted the gown and asked me to pull down the boxers and examined me. Was embarrassing, but quick.

When I get my medical checkups I usual strip all the way down to my briefs - nothing else on!

This is my normal "dressup" - since years!

Yes of course it is ambarassing. You are completely naked except your boxer or briefs. They can see every part of your body, the bulge in your underwear and the shape of your penis and buttocks

I wear boxers with an assortment of prints and colors. Some plaid shorts that guys are wearing now have the same style of prints that some boxers do. I also shower and put on clean underwear if I am going to a doctor visit where I know I will be stripping down. So I agree with a a lot of the previous comments that its not an issue wearing boxers at the doctors because it is like wearing shorts.

If I was wearing underwear be it boxers, briefs or whatever and there were spots, streaks or stains that were visible, that would definitely be uncomfortable for me. Especially if it was a light or solid color and the spots really stood out.

I'll likely get examined by a female physician one of these months. The whole schmere, I'm assuming.

Undies only isn't an issue--I liken it pretty much to me in swim shorts....don't have to worry about indecency in front of a bunch of little girls and big girls. When I was in grad school, I could be blasé about it with those cheap swim shorts on loan ("Okay...they can see the outline of my package...so what?").