Where to disrobe?

When you are asked to undress - where do you find a place to place your clothing?

Is it in a special "wardrobe" or a small cubicle next of or even in the docs examroom?

Or do you just have to placeyour clothing on a chair ?

I wonder how things look at your doc? Thanks for some det. replies!

My doctors have hangers for patients to hang their clothes.

Hmmm... Let me reflect...

I have put my clothes on hangers, hooks and hat/coat racks that are provided in the exam room.

I've never been in an exam room that had wardrobes, cubicles or hat racks. The exam rooms that I frequent are fairly basic, and if you're lucky there's a hook on the back of the door where you can hang a coat or shirt. Nothing really more than that. Most of the time everything gets dumped on the chair. My shoes and socks are removed and I place the socks into the shoes. Those go under the chair so nobody trips on them. Then the shirt, pants and underwear are folded and go on the chair. Sometimes I'll hang the shirt around the back of the chair. Other times instead of folding everything, I'll just lay it across the entire back and seat of the chair. It really just depends on what I'm wearing that day. What's on the chair is kept in the order in which it was removed. That means that most of the time, my underwear (lately white Hanes briefs) is neatly folded and on top of everything else.

...to add to my previous comments, there have been a few special cases for procedures.

I recently had to get some X-rays of my lower back so I went to a free-standing imaging facility. There they first took me into a locked and private changing booth. I was instructed to remove my jeans and put on some exam shorts which they gave me. When I was ready, the technician locked the changing booth with my clothes in it and took me to the procedure room to take my X-rays. When she was finished with me, we went back outside to the booth and unlocked it so I could get dressed.

For my one and only colonoscopy, they took me back to a prep room, told me to remove everything and put on gown. I was given a large plastic bag to put all of my clothing and belongings in. The bag then traveled with me under the table as I was moved into and out of the procedure room.

My experiences are similar to JJ.

In the average exam room there are chairs and maybe hooks or a hanger. In specialty areas things are different. For the various radiologist offices, there's usually a curtained changing area with a few lockers. You take the key with you. For colonoscopy or other hospital procedures like cardiac catheterization, your clothes go in a plastic bag and travel with you. They always suggest leaving valuables with family.

The strangest facility was an outpatient ambulatory surgery at a local hospital. The changing area was in the procedure room. There was a hospital curtain diagonally across a corner with a chair and hooks on the wall. I disrobed behind the curtain while the nurses were preparing the room and asking me admission questions.

There are always different twists that make it slightly different. I believe we covered how but not where.

I usually fold my clothes and place them on the chair as I am quite casual in my day to day life. Jeans and a t shirt are not easy to wrinkle. My jacket or coat goes on a wall hanger. Shoes and socks under the chair.

Place my clothes on the bed or a chair.

Just hooks on the back of door. I hang it there. I fold the undies and put them in my jeans pocket and hang jeans on the hook ,same with top.

Shoes/sandels under the chair.

Here there is usually a curtained area where the exam bed is . There is a chair to put your things on . Shoes go under it and depending on what's being examined the clothes for that area come off and are placed on the chair .

At my doctors office, there is just a chair next to the exam table for my clothes.

Unlike the US, most GP Surgeries in the UK , the GP's Office/consultation room doubles as the exam room as well. As Niknoks has said there is an exam couch which either has a screen or a curtained which can be drawn. You normally disrobe behind this, and only remove clothing for the area to be examined. Clothing is usually placed on a chair at the side of the table or couch.

The doctors at the VA have a combination exam/consult room. There is no privacy screens or curtains. The desk is on one side of the room, the exam table on the other. The desk faces away from the table. Next to the table is usually a chair to put clothes on as they come off. (If they come off)

As RN1993 said, my doctors is all in one so there's just a screen that the doc pulls across the exam bed to expose the subject area.

With my doctor my clothes have always just gone on a chair in the room. The first time I had to take my bra off and put on a gown, I remember that I was careful to make certain that my bra was hidden under my other clothes.

Most of the exam rooms that I have been in have been small and with only an exam table, desk, rolling stool for the doctor, and a regular chair for the patient. For exams in a small room like that, my clothes end up on the chair for the patients while I have a seat on the table in a gown or underpants only. One doctor had a bigger exam room that had the usual plus two chairs, a scale, and a wooden cabinet that had a some hangers and a roll of toilet paper. The cabinet was closed when I arrived but he told me that I could hang my jacket there while I got stripped down to my underpants. Another time I remember an exam room that had one or two hangers hanging on a hook on the door and I was told that I could hang up my clothes if I wanted to. I hung up my shirt and jeans and left my shoes under my chair and my socks and underpants on the chair. I have never been in an exam room that had a screen or separate place to undress and leave my clothes.

The doctors at the VA have a combination exam/consult room. There is no privacy screens or curtains. The desk is on one side of the room, the exam table on the other. The desk faces away from the table. Next to the table is usually a chair to put clothes on as they come off. (If they come off)

1Doc1,

The VA, not all of them are that way.

Andie

1Doc1,

The VA, not all of them are that way.

Andie

You are correct. I shouldn't generalize. The local VA Medical system that I use is that way, but I usually go to a relatively small clinic. Perhaps at the bigger facilities in the system, things are different,

I have had to disrobe in hospitals only and each time it was a overnight/ week long stay. So I used to do it in the bathroom and place the clothes in the bag I generally carry around with myself.

Usually, after the nurse has led me back to the exam room, she'll close the door and I'll disrobe in the room before the doctor gets there. There's not special area to do it, and I usually try to fold my clothes up on the chair

I have always been told to undress after being escorted to the exam room where the physical will take place. Most of the rooms have been fairly small but usually have had a side chair in addition to the doctor's stool. I undress in the room to whatever degree I am instructed and have placed my clothes on a hook on the wall or on the side chair. I take my shoes and socks off first and put them under the chair or against a wall out of the way. Then I take off my pants if instructed to and hang them in the hook or fold them and place them on the chair. My shirt goes on the hook or on top of the pants. Then come the anxious minutes of waiting for the doctor.

At the doctors office, I just undress in the examination room and place my clothes on a chair. The only place that had a separate changing room was an imaging center. You changed into a gown and locked your clothes in a locker provided.

I would simy undress right in the exam room i was in and put my clothes on a chair that was in the room as well

I end up disrobing about 4ft away from the doctor in his office. Something to be said about efficiency.

Usually shot clothes in the locker room or a screen in own doctor's room

My first doctor was just hooks on the door. The doctor I go to now and most of the ones I worked for have a small room. The one I have now has a small room with a swinging door. Inside there are hooks, a chair and a seat attached to the wall. there is also a full length mirror.

Usually i'm brought into whatever room i'll be examined in before being asked to disrobe. There may or may not be a hook on the wall or door. There may be "a" chair.

If there's a hook. i usually hang my pants or shorts on it. Maybe stuff my shirt in the pocket if i didn't throw it on the chair. I try to keep socks & sneakers in a place most out of the way so they're not stepped on or tripped over.

If i wore a coat, it would go on over the pants if i didn't hang it in the lobby

I place all of my clothes on a chair in the exam room.

Undress in the room where I'm going to be examined and place clothes on an adjacent chair. Only during school Medicals did I undress elsewhere and have to walk into the Doctor in my underpants.