Medical Exams in Florida

In Florida, do patients have to be totally naked for medical exams or wearing only underpants or topless wearing just panties?

What does Florida have to do with anything?

Say what? Is this a for real question?

Yes, that's correct - in Florida all patients are required by law to be completely nude. Except for Mickey Mouse ears, of course.

The answer is no. Now I have a question of my own. Are you a blonde?

Yes, that's correct - in Florida all patients are required by law to be completely nude. Except for Mickey Mouse ears, of course.

Being that I'm from Florida...not only Mickey Mouse ears...but its required to wear flip/flops as well... 😃

As a licensed health care professional who has lived in FL for 11 years I can state categorically that there is no law that requires a person to be nude to be examined. Total nudity for an exam is almost unheard of. Prisoners being searched while being admitted to prisons and jails are strip searched if there is any even remote possibility that they possess any dangerous items or substances and this is not a medical procedure. Beyond that I doubt that one in a thousand examinations is done nude.

PS: Newborn children are examined nude!

Stephen S you are correct in saying that newborns are examined nude. With males it is important to have a towel ready in cast they pee. According to Boyle's law a small radius bladder can blast a stream right at you....

@liquidsky, In FL peeing on a law enforcement officer will get you arrested for assault and battery and probably attempted murder, along with anything else they can dream up such as public nudity and lewd and lascivious behavior.

Spiting on a cop, too

StephenS, Is this from first hand experience?

@quincy, work in a prison and you will learn a lot. Never believe inmates or officers without verification from reliable sources.

I just read something to that effect on Misterpoll. I didn't know whether it was true or not.

It has nothing to do with the state, it depends on the individual doctor and what the patient is being seen for.

Exactly I can't imagine a law that would require patients to be examined in the nude!

Actually ive heard the reverse that many states have laws saying a patient must be gowned or draped at all times or that when a male dr in examining a woman her top part myst be covered when her bottom part is examined, etc. this is to protect the patient . ive heard this is the law in texas yet someone on here in tx says he and his sister are totally naked in front of their pediatritian

There are draping laws in massage therapy, too. There's no massage or doctor police in the exam room. Once the therapist or doctor and patient are comfortable with each other and their motivation, there's no reason not to do what's right and comfortable for both parties,

Seems like laws in the opposite are a bit intense as that should be determined by what is comfortable between the doctor and patient. Even if the nurse says completely undress, you're not required to.

@liquidsky, In FL peeing on a law enforcement officer will get you arrested for assault and battery and probably attempted murder, along with anything else they can dream up such as public nudity and lewd and lascivious behavior.

Spiting on a cop, too

The police will shoot to kill you at the smallest provocation from the biggest hick and redneck state to New York and California.

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@quincy, work in a prison and you will learn a lot. Never believe inmates or officers without verification from reliable sources.

Definitely true. They will lie to you to have make you rat on your friend or make a full out confession.

The biggest police lie: "If you tell me what I need to know, I will help you."

Switchablesusie says--The biggest police lie.."if you tell me what I need to know,i will help you"...accurate to a T...Help themselves more like it..

And there are a lot of folks so dumb they believe it.

You still can't fix stupid.

Never heard anything like that

In FL only psychiatric patients have to be nude unless they have sexual problems then they may wear a wet diaper.

As a 5th generation Floridian....the only mandatory nudity known to me is swimming in my pool after dark. And of course an occasional dip into the Gulf of Mexico....

In California the only mandatory nudity is while skinny dipping.

With males it is important to have a towel ready in cast they pee. According to Boyle's law a small radius bladder can blast a stream right at you....

Do you mean Bernoulli's Principle of fluid dynamics?

Boyle's Law relates to pressure and volume of gasses. P1 x V1 = P2 x V2

Sorry Susie I hated physics. You would have too if you'd had my professor. He lectured out of his textbook and it was a toss up which was more abstruse.

I have read the posts referred to in Misterpoll. The guy who posted them is/was called "gyrodude" and his last post of this nature was in 2012.

I live in Florida and 20 years ago my doctor had me totally nude with a drape eventually that was cast asside. Now clothed and pants down for genital and rectal exam unless you have a procedure. only naked for play exams