State of dress during auscultation

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

Same here, whenever the doctor says they want to listen to my heart/breathing/tummy, it's just an automatic reaction to take my top off for them to listen to me bare chested.

Anytime my doctor wanted to auscultate my heart, he would listen to aortic or pulmonic area. So there was no need to be bare chested.

I’ve been in various states of undress when auscultated. As a kid, my mother always instructed me to remove my top, as I got older I was occasionally asked to lift my top up or unbutton my school shirt and the doctor worked around my back and chest. As an adult, it varies on the doctor, but most ask me to just lift up my top, very occasionally I remove the top altogether.

Lift the shirt for GP

My GP listens to me shirtless. For play exams, I like to change it up - usually I'll be shirtless, but I also like to lift my shirt up to have my chest listened to.

My first GP, that I had for years, would just go over the top or would put his hand up underneath with the stethoscope, never for longer than a few quick breaths. My current one typically gets me to wear a gown and strategically maneuvers it so my chest is never fully exposed at one time. She spends more time during the auscultation stage though which is nice…

At a routine GP visit for a possible chest infection etc the doctor normally just puts the stethoscope up under my t-shirt on my bare skin and tells me to take some deep breaths. But at annual well man medicals I'm normally asked to undress to just my shorts for the examination, and so then I'm stethed bare chested.

Always been over my clothes at my annual physical. Other times, the doc would put his hand up under my t-shirt also with the steth.

Topless

Last time I went to the doctor, he told me to take off my sweatshirt, but I stayed in my shirt and she told me to pick up the t-shirt. Being in the hospital, they always told me to take the top off, unless it was a quick auscultation, they put a stethoscope under my shirt.

I’ve very rarely beeen stethed with my too completely off. My gynecologist steths with a gown that opens in front do she gets a good listen, but my pcp just does it over the shirt.

Shirtless

Gown, bra, panties, socks.

@amashupdawg Does your PCP lower your gown, place the stethoscope over top of it, or stick it down inside the gown to listen? I'm guessing you keep your bra on the entire time regardless of the technique?

As a man, I'm usually auscultated bare chested. Auscultation under the shirt is not necessary to preserve the modesty, it can be to avoid a cold.

I cannot remember a time which I was not braless.

Our internist auscultates my heart and lungs anteriorly with my gown lowered during my physical, so I'm topless. For a follow up or sick visit, I may be either without a shirt and wearing my bra or topless. She's done it both ways.

My gynecologist just sort of slides the paper exam vest out of his way in front and slides the stethoscope under the back of the vest.

For my endocrinologist, it depends on the reason for the visit. I get a complete physical once a year there, so it's topless with the gown lowered. At follow up visits, I'm generally mostly clothed, so it's under the shirt or only in my bra above the waist.

My urologist auscultates my heart and lungs at every visit, as well. If he decides to do a complete exam, I'm auscultated topless with the gown lowered. Otherwise, it's pretty much just under the shirt.

A lot of docs now auscultate over clothing. Even my cardiologist listens over clothing. I stethed a 22 year old some years ago who said that I was the first one to steth her bare chested since she was a child before her breasts developed. She said that I was the first one to see her breasts, and I got to perform her first breast exam.

I think every doctor visit that I have had as an adult, it's been done under my clothes except for one visit to the ER when I was put in a gown and even then it was done by reaching inside the gown. As a kid and in my teens (1970s and 1980s) I was always at least shirtless at the doctor, no matter if it was a check-up or if it was because I was sick, so in all of those cases, I was bare chested. Even for things done at my school for various reasons, my shirt was always off. But, not since then.

I am most often auscultated bare-chested. I may have a gown on that's been lowered or I may have only my boxer briefs on or I may be fully clothed below the waist. Beware the provider who auscultates through clothing.

90% of the time I am barechested during auscultation.

My chest is always bare when the Doctor uses his stethoscope

I'm always bare chested when the doctor listens to my chest

I often holding my shirt up, so the doc can listen under. The same in front and back. But the doctor is listening on bare skin.

I usually just have to lift my shirt, at a regular doctor‘s visit.

Play exams are very different, as the person being auscultated is usually at least topless or completely naked.

During my physicals, the nurse auscultates while I’m still fully clothed, putting the stethoscope beneath my shirt. The doctor auscultates after I’ve changed into a paper gown, still wearing my bra, panties, and socks.

I always take my shirt off, despite being told not to by the doctor. One even demanded I put it back on. I just respond “I prefer it to be off”, and remove it, whether they like it or not. Experts online say you can NOT get an accurate auscultaion over clothing, and it's true.

Depends on the doctor. If I'm at the doctor for a physical, then I'm undressed to my briefs only anyway and bare chested. Other times if I'm in a gown then the gown is lowered to my waist first. Have had other times when I'm not undressed and then the stethoscope is slipped inside my shirt.

Generally for physical exams my experience has been bare chested with shirt off. If I am there for something else it is generally over clothes.

in a play exam, always on a bare chest or back and never through anything else.

I'm always bare chested when the doctor listens to my chest