Stories by patients who felt violated

This website is pretty interesting. http://patientmodesty.org.

In particular the Modesty Violation Cases: http://patientmodesty.org/modesty.aspx

Some of the stories were valid but I found many of the stories completely ridiculous. How about the guy who felt violated because he disobeyed the rules and wore his underwear into the OR. There's a valid reason that they don't want you to wear street clothes into a sterile environment. Then there's the guy who was upset because the hospital couldn't provide him with an all male staff....

Sometimes they do it for our own good !!!

Often, there's no other valid choice. The fact is that nursing is a predominantly female profession. There's no way to ensure that a single patient will get a staff that's entirely one gender. If the nursing staff is 80% female and the patient population is 50/50, well, you do the math.

There's also no way to provide care that includes the groin area without some exposure. Get over it.

I found these stories totally ridiculous. As a medical professional I can say that both male and female docs are mostly "sex blind". To be anything other than professional would be a breach of the trust placed in us. To expect an all female staff for a gyn procedure is arrogant and naive. As a patient myself I've had docs of both sexes. I would say to any of those "patients" to get over themselves.

I think most of the stories of being abused or ridiculed by medical staff are either due to unrealistic expectations or the patient's impression based on their own anxiety.

A hernia check should not be included in a male sports physicals according to this because it is too embarrassing:

http://patientmodesty.org/sportsphysicals.aspx

Forget modesty, this is an area of the body that needs checking!

A hernia check should not be included in a male sports physicals according to this because it is too embarrassing:

http://patientmodesty.org/sportsphysicals.aspx

Forget modesty, this is an area of the body that needs checking!

Almost like PETA not wanting animals used, even if there's no other choice, to develop life saving medications,including medicine for animals.

Good find. I hadn't seen that page.

I find this "patient modesty" website absolutely ridiculous. I challenge it's validity.

I find this "patient modesty" website absolutely ridiculous. I challenge it's validity.

Hmmm ... I wouldn't challenge the validity or its veracity. There are so many groups of people, organizations, movements, not to mention religions, that have a hard time dealing with anything to do with sex/nudity and the body in general, so it's not surprising that there are people who recount such tales and have such unrealistic ideas about modesty.

The stories are probably true (maybe with some editing and proof-reading to eliminate all the usual typo's). But what is ridiculous is that they think they somehow occupy a moral high-ground and that the medical profession should therefore cater to their unrealistic expectations.

And it's good for a hoot and a laugh, some of the stories were real thigh-slappers ... maybe someone should send them zity's url and have them see things from the other side?

It seems like a bad idea from a health maintenance standpoint to eliminate the genital and hernia exams for high school students participating in sports. It is my understanding that testicular cancers are most common in this age group and leaving it to a teenager to diagnose this for himself seems wrong. I am also under the impression that lifting and straining, such as the type of activities one does in a competitive athletics,can lead to a problem from a hernia. Frankly, I would think significant problems or potential problems with the testicles or a hernia would be much more common than a heart or lung abnormality in the high school age group. Seriously, is the yield in heart and lung auscultation higher in a teenage boy than palpitating his testes and having him turn his head and cough? I also think from the standpoint of emotional maturity the genital and hernia exam is a time for a boy to learn how to grow up, deal with the embarrassment, and have an examiner see his most private parts. I have always thought of having a genital exam sort of a passage rite. I have had to deal with the embarrassment since I was 11 and am now continuing to deal with it in my 40s. It does not hurt anyone and probably has pretty significant value in diagnosing curable abnormalities.