At your last physical who told you to undress?

The lady nurse practitioner she says remove all your clothes except your underpants and socks and put this gown on and I'll be back in the room in a minute. Like a good boy I get exactly what she said

Part of it is the change in times, but another big factor is the age of the patient. They are simply less thorough with adult patients who are mostly healthy.

That had pretty much been my experience with my local family practice group. Over time I had been seen regularly by a PA and Nurse Practitioner - and every exam was fully clothed and a quick referral to a specialist for any issues (with no exam of the issue).

One day, I was at my urologist's office and going through some paperwork with the nurse there (I had a great relationship with her - I had been through two urologists there over the years and was getting ready to see number 3, but she had been the one constant - and had participated in or delivered a number of intimate procedures). She was confirming paperwork and asked me if I was still seeing so & so as my primary care. When I said yes, she asked me what I thought and how I liked her - i guess she could tell by my response that i wasn't particularly happy with the care. I confessed that I wasn't really happy there, that it all felt rather superficial and rushed.

She told me that she had heard that before, not so much about that person, but about the practice. She then said that if I was interested, she could recommend a couple of providers.

I said "sure" and she gave the names of two nurse practitioners and two MDs - all Internal Medicine specialists. She said that she used to work with/ for two of them, and felt that they would be a very good fit for me and might be what I was looking for (and that one of them had been her primary care provider for years).

Anyway, I picked one and the difference has been like night and day. Exams are thorough and detailed, and every one has either been in underwear under a gown or naked under a gown.

So they are still out there. Just keep looking.

I had eagerly anticipated my first Full Body Skin Exam for months. The dermatologist’s bored-looking assistant asked if I had any specific concerns, then she told me to undress to my briefs and offered a paper gown to put on or just drape across my lap. It was still folded on my lap when she walked back in with the doctor. He started with my scalp then checked moles on my back, arms, and chest. He told me to stand so I put the folded gown on the table and turned away from the assistant out of shyness. Without finding anything remarkable while checking my legs, I knew the exam was nearly over so I thought I’d better mention a tiny bump on my penis that was prominent only when I’m aroused. I asked if he would take a look at a cropped boner pic on my phone and he pointed to the obvious spot and said ‘That? It’s just a cyst.’ That was as close to nude as this exam got. Finishing up he said ‘You look good! See you in six months.’ I was disappointed that he didn’t have me drop my briefs for a thorough genital and butt check. I learned that it must be up to the patient to request that he looks at everything for the FULL exam, so he will see all of me (including my tiny bump) in six months!

I think those days are gone. My last few annual checkups have never included any undressing at all. Seems to be a thing of the past. Stething through my shirt, giving blood and that’s it.

For my last two exams, a derm full body skin check and a yearly physical, the nurse instructed me to undress and put on a gown that was provided to me by them. I was fully nude beneath them. For my skin check, I had a lingering bump on my butt just I side the cheek near my perineum, so I dropped the gown for the remainder of the exam after she checked that. For my physical, there were no specific checks that necessitated the doctor asking me to fully remove my gown, but because my records weren't yet in their system my doc wanted to see my previous tests. The gown kept slipping, so I asked (and was ok'd by the doctor) to just remove it while I fished for my phone in my jeans pocket and stood there bare in front of her until she told me i could sit back on the exam table.

I would usually be clothed, with my shirt either raised or off for the first part of the exam. Then my doctor would actually undo my pants and take them down for me. Having him undo my belt and everything was definitely one of my favorite parts of the exam. But no nurse or anything ever had me get undressed before he came in.

My colon and rectal surgeon she's a different story every time I go there I get a rectal exam she goes in the drawer gets a gown and says okay everything off from the waist down and put this gown on and she pulls the curtain and then makes you get on the the table where you bend over it in the table goes up or down until she has your ass right where she wants it

I wasn't asked to undress by anyone. I stayed fully clothed the entire time. At the very end the Dr placed her stethoscope on my heart, over my shirt, for about 10 seconds and then said goodbye as she left the room.

She looked at her computer screen more than she looked at me.

The nurse while she was getting me ready to see the doctor. Her parting words before she exits the room were "get undressed down to your underwear please and the doctor will be in in a few minutes."

I wish. I had the annual checkup and NO undressing. She listened to chest over my shirt, pressed on my tummy after loosening the pants....and that was that. No genital rectal or extremities exam.

I haven’t been asked to strip off my clothes for any physical exam, since switching doctors 20 years ago. The most recent time that I’ve had to undress was for hernia surgery, and a few MRI’s. I don’t know if it’s routine for doctors to do invasive exams, unless the patient has a specific condition.

Now that I'm over 65 years old I can bundle up with all the clothes I want and not have to worry about taking them off because when you go to physical it's not a physical anymore it's a Medicare wellness check. Medicaid won't pay for physical exams for people over 65.

They hardly put their hands on you. They listen to your heart your lungs put the thing on your finger ask you a bunch of questions if you're safe at home if you're thinking of killing yourself then they tell you to there's the door screw

@Dave444 I have the same experience. I won't be scheduling anymore of those exams

The questions they ask to check for dementia are humiliating, and I won't be answering them anymore.

Usually the nurse would tell me when bringing me into the room after getting my height and weight. They’d tell me to get undressed and the doctor will be in shortly.

Nurse. Naked, I then waited in the cubicle for about 10 minutes for the doctor to arrive.

My orthopaedic doc yesterday wanted see my knees and manipulation to see how bad joint was

My orthopaedic doc yesterday wanted see my knees and manipulation to see how bad joint was

I was at the cardiologist. The nurse asked me to take off my shirt and took my blood pressure, then asked me to undress in my underwear, without socks, asked me to lie down and placed the EKG electrodes on me.

At my last physical it was as always my Doctor herself

The nurse, short after that the doc came.

Russianbare.... The questions they asked me I so ridiculous they made me laugh.

Are you safe at home?

Do you clip your own toenails?

Do you cook for yourself?

Do you do your own food shopping?

Can you get in and out of the bathtub by yourself?

Do you have any dreams of someone telling you to kill anybody?

Do you have any thoughts of killing yourself? YES as soon as I'm done with this foolish exam.

My favorite doctor is my Colon and rectal surgery when I go to see her she says take everything off from the waist down and put the sheet around you.... That's my kind of doctor

Unfortunately the my last few physical exams I have not had to undress fully. Shirt off for the EKG and drop the pants for hernia check is the extent of it.

Russian are..... At my last physical excuse me wellness check the nurse practitioner she listened to my heart maybe take deep breaths push a little pin at the bottom of my feet cuz I'm diabetic and they asked me stuff like can you take a bath by yourself are you thinking of killing yourself or anyone else do you hear voices do you clip your own toenails do you have any hallucinations. Then when she was done I said what about the prostate exam she's all we really don't do that anymore I said but I had prostate cancer 10 years ago I said you going to make sure everything is right and then she changed her tune and she did it

Just had my annual exam done a couple of days ago. The doctor himself told me to undress and put a gown on. But not until he was halfway through the exam. He did the first half of the exam while I was sitting in the chair beside the desk fully clothed, e n t. and then checked my neck. He listened to my heart and lungs also while I was sitting in the chair. He didn't have me strip and put the gown on until he was ready to check my skin and do the genital and rectal exam. This is first time he has ever done the exam like this and I have been seeing him now for just over ten years.

@Ccc That is awesome! Since that is not the norm that you are used to, I would have been totally taken by surprise by the experience. By that point, I would have started to assume that it wasn't going to be a very thorough exam and that he wasn't going to do a genital or rectal exam. I would have been relieved that I wasn't going to have to expose myself, and yet I would have also been upset and disappointed about it. Then when he finally springs it on you, it would add additional anxiety and embarrassment. Such a rollercoaster of emotions, I love it!

On a non-medfet note, I've been examined more and more lately while sitting in the chair along the wall. However for mine, that was the extent of it. I didn't advance to undressing or even standing to drop my pants. Just heart, lungs, and maybe HEENT. That's how my last two annual physicals have been from two different doctors. Very disappointing.

After my Doc and I go through all the questions...Illnesses, any issues, family health etc. He says "ok today we'll do a physical exam, take a look at everything and we can recap after. Go ahead and strip down and have a seat on the table (pointing to the end of the table). I want everything off but underpants."

Most of the doctors around where I live do nothing and do it well. They're afraid to prescribe opiates God only knows why. I had four fractured ribs my doctor gives me celebrex. Celebrex really?

And they're afraid to do rectal exams. I recently had some surgery down there and I was getting a lot of pain and stinging in my rectum so I asked the doctor if he could take a look. Because over to the computer and he says well you're going to see doctor such and such in a week (colon and rectal doctor) it's better if he takes a look.

A week earlier I'm in the room with a female nurse practitioner for another matter. I said I have a lot of pain and a problem could you check it out for me she said oh yes where is it and when I told her it looks like she saw a ghost. She said ah ah ah I looked on the computer I saw you had an appointment with Dr such and such it's better for him to check it because he's the expert. WTF?

I don't know maybe she was shy or embarrassed. She should have done dozens of them by now and not have a problem with it

By the nurse told to undress to underwear and put on the gown though the underwear come off during the abdominal exam and stay off for the genitalia/hernia exam

I am in my early 40s and every yearly physical, since I moved to US, was just blood tests, weighting fully clothed, checking blood pressure and a short chat with a doctor, who listened to my heart and lungs, very briefly and without me taking any clothes off. Each time there are attempts to put me on some medication, like clerantyne, just because I have very very mild pollen allergy or at least omeprazole, just because I had stomach ulcer 12 years ago. I am very surprised that some are put through serious examinations for those yearly check-ups. Unless they suffer from some chronic diseases. But in such cases I would expect specialists conducting examinations.

After my doc chats with me and catches up on the past year. He always says..."anything else, any questions or concerns" I always say no. then he says "we'll do a physical, take a look at everything and recap at the end. If you have any questions or concerns just ask" Then he stands up and heads for the door, turns around and says "I want everything off but your underpants, then have a seat on the table"...tapping the end of the table. then leaves.