State of dress during auscultation

As a young child, I was examined with my clothes, including shirt, still on. When I changed pediatricians at age 11, I started having to strip to my underpants for the exam so was auscultated with bare chest. As an adult, I have been auscultated with bare chest with one exception, during which I had just been told to unbutton my shirt. I think bare chested provides for a greater extent of power exchange and emphasizes the subservience of the patient. One interesting aspect to having the shirt still on comes when the genital exam happens and then I had to lift the shirt tails to fully expose the penis and scrotum.

Only once have I been ascultated with the gown lowered beneath my belly with my breast and abdomen completely exposed. This was then followed by a breast and belly exam.

Through exam gown but my bra is on underneath also.

Always topless. I’m in nothing but a paper gown for the exam but when it comes time for auscultation I take my arms out and lower the gown to my waist. From that point on the gown is mostly a drape.

During the last 36 years, none of my steth examinations involved me having to undress (I have related what was involved in a previous post in tnis thread). That all changed last month. I had a pre - op appointment with a Senior Consultant Anaesthetist. I had noticed that she had a 50s / 60s style stethoscope (which looked in superb condition). She said that she would like to check my heart / lungs, so would I mind unbuttoning my shirt. Wow, it was such a great opportunity. I simply decided to take my shirt off. Best stething that I had since I was a teen!! Even better to be told that my heart and lungs were in good shape.

I had GPs listen to my heart over clothes, or asking me to lift the shirt or remove it, while having the bra on. But at the cardiologist, I had to be bare chested.

Doctor listened to my lungs yesterday as I’ve got a bad cough just now. She thinks a bit of a cold, and also bad hay fever, but wanted to rule anything else out.

Got a bit excited when I saw the stethoscope come out but she just put it on my back, pulling my t shirt up a bit. Wasn’t really exposed much at all, apart from my back and a small bit of my stomach from it being pulled up. The steth wasn’t even cold so can’t say I took much pleasure from it.

Wasn’t there to enjoy it obviously, and I’m sure she heard what she needed to, but it would have been nice to have a through and cold stething.

Most of the time I’m in my underwear only when being auscultated. If I am sick and the doctor needs to listen it’s only my shirt off

I guess I will find out what my new GP prefers when I meet her in September. I am hoping for shirt off but I will follow her cue.

I haven't been auscultated by a real doctor for many years, as for play examination I love to be in white briefs only.

Always bare chest here, in some cases I had the shirt on and asked to hold it up with my hands end expose my chest as much as possible for the doctor

Bare chested at my last two physicals

My GP is also my OB/GYN. I don't go in with a bad cold. It has to last a while or I think it may be something else like pneumonia then I will go. She pretty much has it made with me because I diagnose myself and she is more or less another opinion. Most of the time she will listen over my top. But when I had a touch of pneumonia she stuck her hand under my top. When I go in for my full physical she will drop the top of my gown and listen then start the breast exam.

At my GP, my auscultation is normally performed while I'm wearing a bra and panties.

Even as recent as a couple years ago, when the doctor had to listen to my heart and lungs (most of the time its my cardiologist), I would take my shirt all the way off. The last few times though, its either been a hand under the shirt to listen, or just on top of the shirt.

I haven't been auscultated bare chested since before I developed breasts. It has always been done over my clothes. Always very disappointing.

When getting a physical exam I'm wearing a gown where I'm getting auscultated over the gown. If in between my yearly exams I'm at the doctor I'll get ausculated over the shirt I'm wearing.

CAn depend on time and circumstances. If clerking in then often gown in place and no bra if female -so general heart sounds ok if no skin contact but ideally should be slow, methodical and skin/stethoscope contact. CArdiac risk patients different again because of battery of results from more sophisticated investigations.

Until a few years ago, they would lift my shirt and listen on bare skin, but for the past few years they've asked me to take my shirt off and I'm bare chested. It's now just an automatic reaction from me to take my shirt off when they come to steth me.

Certainly in recent times I have only ever been auscultated bare chested, I can't recall the last time I was not asked to remove my top

Nude from the start up through high school. Not sure if that was the norm but was for me.

Most of the times they would just have me lift my top a bit just enough to slide the stethoscope underneath. But on a couple of occasions they had me get topless. I got so embarrassed i felt weak and dizzy as if I was about to faint.

Both at my annual physical and at the nearby GP, in case of cough/cold I am always auscultated over my clothes. Examined properly but over clothes.

In Russia, doctors always ask to remove or raise clothes during auscultation

Always very high! Except once when I was very sick and barely understood what was happening

Normally i am bare chested, during a physical check i am only in underwear.

At the Obgyn he would work around a gown. At most sick visits at my regular dr/urgent care, they would do it through clothing. One time I went to the hospital because I had asthma (and didn't know it) I spent a week coughing and throwing up. I wore a hoodie with no bra (because it was uncomfortable!) I told them all that. They listened to my heart and lungs through the hoodie (pretty sure they just wanted to get me in and out so it wasn't worth getting a gown) and then said that I was fine. They wouldn't prescribe me anything and I just need to relax. Then they tried charging me a few thousand for not doing anything. I complained and got a bill for only $150.

I am always auscultated over clothes. That's how it is here and I think it is same for both genders. I am not sure about men but if a lady is asked by the GP to even raise her top and that too for auscultation she will freak out. That holds true even if the doctor is female. Here patients don't even expect to be asked to raise top forget removing the top for auscultation, atleast at the GP.

Asking to remove a thick jacket or sweater is acceptable. I have been asked to sweater before auscultation and I have done that. But no raising of tops and definitely not being toplesss.

I am always completely dressed for my physicals, so whether it's for an annual exam or a sickness visit my shirt is always on. My doctor first places the stethoscope on my back, on top of my shirt, and listens to my lungs while I take deep breaths. Next he tells me he is going to listen to my heart and asks me to lean forward just a bit. He slips the stethoscope down the top of my shirt just a couple of inches and tells me to take shallow breaths.

Whenever I need to be stethed I don't give the doctor the option. I immediately remove my top and get stethed bare chested