At your last physical who told you to undress?

No one asks me to get undressed at a physical any longer. It's like doctors have developed x-ray vision.

Always the nurse. After taking me to a room and getting vitals they tell me everything off but the socks, put on the gown, and the Doc will be in shortly.

For my gyno or medical it's only me and the lady doctor in the room. For my gyno I am bottomless straight away as she asks me to get undressed from the waist down, and I have to stand with my vulva exposed to answer the questions.

My medicals vary. I have to wear a long t-shirt and she asks me to either undress completely then put the t-shirt back on, or remove all clothes apart from my knickers then put the T-shirt back on. If my knickers are on then I have to take them off at the end then lift my t-shirt so she can look and feel inbetween my legs.

At my doc. The Nurse or Tech. Usually asks me to undress

At my last exam I was brought to the room and my doctor asked me to strip to my underwear. I stripped but kept my socks on and waited on the table and a nurse came by and did my blood pressure and that was it. After a while the doctor came back and I laid back on the table to which he always removes my socks then underwear.

I kind of shamed her into doing a full Monty physical in our correspondence and she said it would be easier for her that way. When I went in the assistant did her thing at the computer and left saying the doctor would be right in.

She came back and said she forgot to tell me to strip and put on a gown which she handed me. That seemed kind of ridiculous, all I was going to do is get up on the table when the doc came in, why put on the gown? Just to make work for the laundry?

The doc came in and she said “oh you didn't put this on” and brought it over where she slid it onto my arms. I hopped up on the table and she slipped it off my arms to begin her work. Gee I wore it for at least 30 seconds and now it needs to go to the laundry.

Well in a week I'll see how the dermatologist does it. She's also a gerontologist and I think at 82 I qualify as a geront. Maybe I'll switch doctors, her write-ups are terrific.

Where I live, very few doctors employ nurses or secretaries. They either work alone from a home office or are (part-time) employed in a hospital. And even in a day clinic in a hospital, there are indeed nurses and all kinds of secretarial workers, but they are seldom assigned to one single doctor only. They work for a pool of doctors and so don't have time to accompany patients.

This to explain that it is usually the examining doctor themselves who tell me to undress.

Never seem to get asked to undress for a doctor in UK these days even before covid. I actually had to ask for a prostate exam and he then took me into a side room and told me just to pull down my track suit bottoms and jump up on the table. Very difficult to manoeuvre and performed a DRE but took rather a long time in there as I think he knew what I was after

I was not asked to undress. The doctor only said he would make an auscultation after discussing the results of the blood analysis and my actual health. I know that it is time to remove my shirt. No genital exam or DRE.

During my annual physicals a always got instructed by my doctor. if there is a genital or rectal exam i have to lower my trousers and underpants.

Well, that's how my visit to the family doctor usually goes. My last checkup is always like the previous ones. I arrive at the appointed time and sit outside the doctor's office. After the previous patient comes out, I knock on the door and go in. The doctor and I exchange greetings and I sit down in front of him. The office is pretty small. There's just a table with a computer, three chairs, a couch, a scale, and a blood pressure monitor. There is no nurse in the room, no screen and gowns, not even a curtain on the window. The doctor asks about the purpose of my visit and what I am complaining about. Then he asks a few questions, the answers to which he enters in the computer. Then he gets up, comes over to me and takes my blood pressure and temperature with a wheeled pressure measuring device. I'm sitting in a chair at this time. At the same time, he asks me to open my mouth and examines me with a spatula. Afterwards he says:

- Take off your clothes, I'll take a look at you.

I get up, go to the couch and take off everything above my waist. A skirt or jeans can be kept. However, in summer, if I wear a frock, I have to take it off and stay in just my panties. I like to wear frocks, but I try not to wear them during doctor's appointments. After undressing, I walk up to the doctor. After the examination I go to the couch and get dressed. The doctor does not leave the room during undressing or dressing. Often while undressing or dressing, we talk about various different topics not related to the examination.

No one

It was the nurse, and she did all the vitals….BP, height, weight, temperature…etc…

The nurse she said remove everything except my socks. She handed me gown Said opening to the rear please . After a couple minutes she knocks comes back in gets my vitals, weight ask my height then to bathroom for urin sample. we return to room she ask basic medical questions then when was my last BM , my last prostate exam and if it was a DRE or a blood test .. then said she would let the nurse practitioner know I was ready.

The nurse. I was taken to a small changing room. And she said take it all off and ripped off a paper towel machine and said here's your uniform.

Normally, if it's a scheduled physical, the nurse asks me to undress before the doctor comes in. But the best exams I've had were often while ‘establishing care’ at a new clinic, or seeing the doctor for a variety of reasons at once, so for those situations the doctor usually asks like “should I do a physical then?” and at that point she asks me to undress, and I just go ahead and hurry up to get things going. I want time spent on me, not spent on waiting.

Interesting experience at the Doctor this morning - being seen for a ruptured bicep tendon and possible rotator cuff damage. Doc and a female nurse/notetaker in the room with me. I was wearing a pullover sweatshirt and at one point the doc asked if I had a tee shirt on under it - I assumed he wanted me take it off to get a better look at the shoulder. I said no - but I'll take it off it you want - and he said “No, that's not necessary". Didn't matter to me one way or the other - as he'll be able to tell more from the imagery he ordered. Not sure if he was concerned about my modesty, his, or the nurse’s.

I was already barechested for the temperature check, BP check, and EKG. He then pulled out a gown from a cabinet, and instructed me to remove my underwear and jeans before donning the exam gown.

At my annual wellness exam with my internists, I really don't undress. It is barely an exam. The nurse will do a chest x-ray with my clothes on, and she may do an EKG in which case I take my shirt off. Then I put it back on and the doc listens to my lungs and heart over the shirt. He no longer does a hernia check or a prostate exam. I don't know why he stopped doing those two exams. It may be because I am on medicare and they don't pay for those exams. But the exam is more of him asking questions and when necessary sending me to other specialists. Last year he sent me to a urologist because of my PSA, to my cardiologists because he thought the EKG was different, and for a colonoscopy because it had been 4 years and I was supposed to go back for another one in 3 years. The only time I really undress is when I go to the dermatologist and then I put on a paper gown but keep my boxers on. When the doc comes in, the gown is gone in about 10 seconds. I don't know why they even bother with it except when she opens the door, anyone can see in.

At my last physical it was the nurse practitioner that conducted the exam. It was my first time meeting her. My regular provider was out on maternity leave.

A nurse took me back to the exam room and did my vitals. Then she asked me to take a seat on the table.

The NP came in shortly after. She introduced herself to me then asked me many questions That ranged from sexual partners to if I wear my seat belt. Fun stuff.

After the formalities she Pulled out a gown from a cabinet and handed it to me.

“Mandy, since you are here for a physical I need you to take everything off and wear this. I’ll be back in a moment to finish things up.“

I had a recent physical in February with my regular Dr. The nurse walked me into the room and took my vitals. She just asked why I was here and I advised yearly physical. After the BP, temp and height and weight were taken all with clothes on. She told me to remove everything except my underwear and put on a gown.

I did as I was told but did not use the gown. I sat in my underwear about 15 mins on the exam table. I was in my underwear the whole time.

Nobody-Physicals are so different today with HMO's and medical plans. I haven't been asked to disrobe in any way over the last several years.

It is always the nurse that gives the undressing instructions. It seems most American doctors must think it is beneath them to do so, at least the ones I have been to. However, from the posts on here, it seems a few doctors will give those instructions themselves yet.

Usually vitals by the nurse after being taken to the exam room. Then doctor comes in to talk. He tells me to undress to my underwear and leaves the room to let me undress. When he comes back in he does the full exam including genital and rectal exam. Even for sick visits he has his patients undress. There was one occasion when he squeezed me in for an end of the day appointment, the rest of the staff was leaving or gone, he asked me to undress, but did not leave the room. He did everything from vitals on.

The nurse told me to undress and put on the gown after she took my blood pressure. I asked her if I had to wear it and she said I didn't and put it away. So I sat on the table in my bikini underwear and waited for the nurse practitioner who does the exams. When she came she asked me a lot of questions and went through the physical. When it was prostate check time I told her I liked to have it standing on the stool in front of the table and bent over the table. That way I'm fully exposed to her. I dropped my shorts to my ankles and faced her completely naked while she was getting a pair of latex gloves on. She did the Dre and then did a testicular exam.

After years of “annual physical exams” by a young male MD who only asked questions (no auscultation, palpating, etc.), my last physical was conducted by a much older male doctor who, five minutes into the procedure, told me, “Take off your clothes."

I started to strip, but I was so surprised that, while doing so, I asked, “Everything?”

He said, "You can keep your underwear on for now.”

He performed a very lengthy and thorough exam, including a lot of palpating of my abdomen while I was on my back. This included his fingers going inside my underwear to palpate my lower belly, well into my pubic hair. If I had followed his initial instructions, I would have been completely naked through the whole procedure.

While I was still on my back, he examined my penis and scrotum by touch, cupping and rolling them with his hand inside my underwear.

He actually didn't strip down my underwear until it was time for the digital rectal exam, with me bent over the table. No shirt, so at that point I was completely bare.

Usually the nurse would tell me to undress

A lovely! sweet medical assistant.

At my last physical the doctor told me to undress. As he was telling me take my clothes off, making sure to tell me even my socks he was reaching in a drawer on the side of the exam table and pulling out a gown. He laid it on the table and told me when I was ready I could put it on with the opening in the back and tie it. By the time he was done with the physical the gown was bunched up around my waist and I was laying on my left side. He had untied it when he started to examine my chest and back and then my abdomen never bothering to tie it back around my neck when he was done with the abdominal exam. He pulled the gown up over my waist to do the genital exam and just left it that way when he told me to roll onto my left side for the rectal exam. When I rolled over the gown fell off my chest leaving me pretty much completely exposed except for a little bit of my right hip.

My exam routine matured as I grew older. For the last 10 years in practice I would greet the patient who remained fully clothed for the history portion of the exam. Then I would ask them to undress to their underclothes as I stepped out to go see a brief return patient. Then I returned to perform the examination. It worked well.