Exam Gowns

What type of gown does your doctor office use, cloth or paper?

The doctor office where I go is now providing white printed cloth gowns for patients. For the past several years have enjoyed the crinkle of the blue paper gown. The cloth gowns are warmer and seem to fit much better. Please share your preference of gowns.

My dermatologist uses the blue paper gowns. My GP uses either a cloth gown or a cloth lap drape.

I don't like the paper because they feel stiff, like I'm wearing a huge dental bib, or a disposable table cloth.

My preference is the lap drape, with a cloth drape my second choice.

Of course my real preference would be to be nude from the beginning, but I've never had a doctor use that as a practice.

My GP uses white paper lap drapes. I've been to my local community hospital several times for routine tests, and they have provided a cloth gown.

My doctor uses cloth only.

I've had both paper and cloth...prefer cloth. My GP uses the traditional cloth gown with the two ties in the back. The gowns are worn and old but they cover up nicely. The GP is an old single practioner in his own stand alone office, and I've wondered whether one of his staff washes the gowns or whether these are commercially serviced. The local hospital uses cloth gowns that are much heavier. The hospital also gives heavyweight paper 'booties' for your feet.

Hmmmm my uk based dr tends to just make u take your pants off and gives u like a towel to cover your legs and examines you! how boring. id like the gowns!!

I encountered something new, practices using long, solid color T-shirts in lieu of gowns for regular exams. They are laundered on site and reused. Paper gowns are still used for minor surgery and the like.

As a follow up to an earlier post, I also do a colonic series every 3 months mainly to remove toxins, but they also use cloth gowns.

My doctor uses paper. I prefer using no gown at all. Nothing like letting it all hang out.

My doctor uses paper. I think most doctor's are using paper gowns now because they are more practical, easy to use and disposable. No need to spend time to wash them. I would much rather wear a cloth gown. Feels way more comfortable. I just feel weird in paper.

I like the paper ones because I enjoy being as exposed as possible, given the choice I'd be naked for the exam and I always ask for a gown

Paper only and I hate them.............

Always cloth here.

Always with partial clothes at my Dr . Hospitals give you a cloth gown

Both.

it's so when she does the bimanual exam, she can give me a bit privacy

My GP uses cloth gowns and the gyno dr. doesn't provide anything but a paper sheet. The gyno dr. has us strip from the waist down and leave open your top for the breast exam.

Mine always uses paper. i like the crinkle sound and they seem to be much more revealing than a cloth gown would be and i like that

I never thought about the "more exposure" angle with the paper gowns, but you're probably right. The cloth ones fit reasonably well, but keeping a paper one on correctly through a full exam seems almost impossible.

I went to a German GYN doc in Germany. they do not give you anything to cover up with.

Paper, and was told to just wrap it around myself.

Ive been given the paper sheet for my lower half and a white sheet to wrap my entire body in.

I like the paper gound more, it makes u feel more exposed.

A Solid T-shirt as it is widely available and its cheap.

Where I go, they always use cloth gowns with the hospital name printed on them. Recently, I was talking to one of the nurses and pointed out to her that my gown had a different hospital's name printed on it.

I guess that some patient was transferred between hospitals and they ended up with the gown.

At a gyns office that i was at they gave you a paper bib like thing and something to cover your lap with that wasnt as big as hand towel barely and it was paper too. at my gp when i have a pap they give me a cloth gown that opens in the front but it is really big and give me a large piece of paper to put over my lap

I like paper gowns there cheaper and easier to dispose rather than clean.

Both my Gynecologist and my GP use the tacky yellow paper gowns. >😢

Cloth gowns are def the way to go. Much more comfortable and warm. The paper gowns are the cheap and inexpensive way to go. The paper gowns also rip every time you move.

I have only had cloth gowns, but most of the time I do not have to undress

Paper gowns are cheesy and uncomfortable. Not good for the environment also 😃