Gowns

Don't you bring one anyway? Very useful for finding blood and other stains on various surfaces.

That's my point. I'm not sure I want to know.

Jds4med,

That's my point. I'm not sure I want to know.

On that thought, be sure to stay out of the onboard lavatory in airplanes, keep your hands out of the back seat pocket and wipe everything down in your tiny passenger space with bleach/sanitizing wipes. This also applies to first class and all areas of passenger seating and crew seating... 😮

You could use that black light in the waiting room of the clinic/office/facility. I am sure you would receive some interesting inquiry from patients and medical staff! 😁 🙄

Love the paper gown. open in the back.

One can be too phobic about germs. I regularly eat food off the ER floor! Lol

What a great (and rather valid) excuse to disregard the gown. Germs, bacteria and countless diseases that go along with it...Suddenly I feel far less phobic of clowns.

Turk,

What about clowns with chainsaws and the clowns at spook alley's, haunted houses etc?

Clowns terrify me in general, especially those I just mentioned.

As to if they are worse than some germs, it depends on the germ...

Andie

Https://youtu.be/8xSNiPx791A

Scary clown pranks

I have never had a gown. Normally I undress to my boxershort.

Here's a thought. Getting a physical from a white coat doctor dressed up like a scary clown.

Here's a thought. Getting a physical from a whit coat doctor dressed up like a scary clown.

http://loo.me/2011/06/funniest-show-on-tv-right-now-easy-its-childrens-hospital/

Like fetfan10 I had a dermatologist appointment a couple of weeks ago. The nurse/assistant (I am not sure she was a nurse) took me to the room and told me to undress, take off everything but leave my underwear on. She gave me a paper gown to put on that opened in the front. I did as she said and in a few minutes the doctor, a lady, came in with the assistant. Within 10 seconds, the doctor was opening up the gown and within 30 seconds I was sitting on it. Why bother with the gown? Next time I go I am going to suggest that we dispense with the gown. If I am going to be in my boxers in 30 seconds, why not just start in my boxers?

I have been to this dermatologist twice and both times she did not ask me to drop my boxers. So the full body exam did not include the groin area or butt area. I don't understand that.

I would much rather be in a paper gown than cloth gown. Just think it's a better feeling.

Here in Europe we dont use gowns usualy

I've operated in paper gowns but don't care for them very much. They were water and blood proof but they don't have the insulating properties that cloth ones do. Since the OR tends to be cold I felt that they didn't keep me warm enough. They're the wave of the future though.

No gown for me.

I prefer to be examined in a gown,but always with the opening in the front!!!

Always a gown.

I am usually given a drape and if given a gown I normally use it as a drape. Nude underneath. The last physical, where a student NP did my exam, I was given what seemed like a very new, or close to being new out of the bag gown, which I draped over my shoulders leaving my backside exposed. The gown stayed on, until the genital check, then it was lifted.

I'm indifferent- if anything I think its enjoyable ego mix it up by sometimes requiring a gown and other times not providing a gown. It ads to the anxiousness to not be exactly sure which will be required!

I'm actually pretty inhibited about my body now. The ravages of time have taken there toll as it were. I think I'd just like the gown please.

I think that if you were going to design a purposefully humiliating garment, you couldn't do much worse than a hospital gown. I would much rather be examined wearing athletic shorts. I don't think anything of going out to exercise on a hot day with just a swimsuit or shorts on, so there's no modesty issue for me.

Also, wearing a cloth hospital gown gives me a feeling like I'm wearing someone else's underwear. If I absolutely had to have a gown, I'd go with paper.

http://loo.me/2011/06/funniest-show-on-tv-right-now-easy-its-childrens-hospital/

I LOVE Childrens Hospital!

For the grammar checkers, it is Childrens Hospital, NOT Children's Hospital.

It's named after Donald Childrens!

I prefer a gown...open in the back...

I personally like it when I walk into a room and see a patient already changed into a gown. It's always way easier and faster to do a proper physical exam when a patient is wearing a gown. Auscultating the lungs (which is usually done on the pt's back is quick and more accurate because you can auscultate directly on the skin instead of over clothes), and auscultating the heart is faster because you can get to the chest more easily compared to having to go under shirts. Also, the abdominal exam is also simpler just from ease of access when a pt is wearing a gown.

Clothing usually obstructs. Gowns make things swifter and smoother for your doctor!

As I've said on other threads, if a patient is fully dressed when I arrive to examine them I simply go on to another patient. I don't have time to waste. The nurses have already told them to wear the gown. Too bad.

I prefer to use a disposable gown, will what happens the doctor emcaminhar me to another room with the dress is faster because it does not need to keep changing me

As either doctor or patient, I prefer the patient be stripped to his undershorts. When I am the patient, it is always tighty whitie briefs and I always request any man I am going to examine to wear white briefs too. I think undershorts for an exam are desirable because they emphasize the patient's loss of power to the fully clothed examiner. It makes me feel vulnerable as the patient since the briefs provide very little coverage and allow the examiner to see my whole body, minus genitalia, buttocks, and groins, throughout the exam. It also allows the examiner to check out the bulge--or lack thereof--in the front of my briefs as the exam proceeds. Gowns provide a lot more coverage and a greater sense of modesty. I find, as patient and examiner, the unveiling of the penis and scrotum for that final part of the exam is much more dramatic and exciting when the patient is lowering his undershorts rather than just raising the gown. I also like the look of the briefs pulled down on the thighs provide an exciting framing effect of the penis and scrotum.

I prefer the disposable paper gowns that are open in the back.

No gown. Just undies.

I began having exams without one, and waived wearing them when they were first made available & offered. Doctors are supposed to look at (i.e. examine) your body, & i've been long accustomed to that.

Considering all the massage parlors i've been to, i must enjoy being nude, & touched nude, by women.

What do you want me to do? Insist on a gown at my physical, then go home & mow my lawn the way i usually do, just shorts no shirt, for all the neighborhood to see. (I have started wearing shirts when the sun is out, being a skin cancer survivor)

Gowns are for hospitals.

it might be a cool experience to be wearing a paper gown at a physical, & then the doctor just cuts it off of me when it's time, or cuts pieces off at a time.

I've experienced almost every configuration of dress possible in medical situations: fully clothed, shirt off, undressed fully and changed into disposable shorts (pretty much same thing as underwear but itchier), and fully nude under a gown (for a minor surgery). I have never been fully nude in front of a doctor, but I can't think of any medical situation where that would be necessary or appropriate.

If given a choice between a gown only and underwear only, I'd take underwear only hands down. A gown is too tricky to fiddle with and both covers up and exposes too much at once.