Wearing only a drape for physical

Quite a few years ago, i went for a physical, and wore only a drape. Has anyone else had this weird (at least for me ) experience?

If so, what did you think?

Yes, I do that now with each and every physical exam. In my view of the world, a full exam should be done nude, giving the provider the best opportunity to actually conduct a thorough hands-on exam (and as JDS likes to say, to also give another pair of eyes the opportunity to check his skin for any problems!). So at the point when the doctor comes in, I'm already completely nude with just the paper drape over me. Once the door is closed and she's conducting the exam, the drape is set aside.

I've shared a few times now how I do things, so rather than repeating the same thing again, here's a good explanation:

http://www.zity.biz/index.php?mx=forum;ox=display;msg=675362

This standard practice at both my primary care physician and my dermatologist. I guess it save the few pennies it takes to cut and glue the paper into a gown. I hate the gowns anyway.

As I wrote in the "who tells you to undress" thread, at my last physical I wore disposable shorts. I have never worn a gown or a drape at a physical exam.

I have only worn a gown (with underwear) once and that was at my first dermatological exam a couple of years ago.

The first year my company switched from a doctor to a nurse practitioner to do the exam, i used the paper gown as a drape over my genitalia

Since i used to never be offered gowns, i was used to being topless. When they started offering me a paper gown, i never used it because i thought it was pointless since the doctor needs to move his steth all around on both sides & i'm used to being topless for him. Plus i often went without a shirt outdoors & in the house, so i thought wearing a gown would just be stupid.

usually i would be instructed to strip to my "shorts". But this nurse practitioner said something like "everything off except your shorts, or if you want a genital exam, everything off". And especially because she was someone i would want to bang, i jumped at the "everything off" opportunit, but i still wasn;t gonna wear the gown, as i think she had assumed.

But i felt weird being nude while i waited for her, so i used the folded paper gown as a drape for minimal modesty, which i felt starting to slip off a few times while she was examining me as i was lying down.

Whenever I go to the doctor use a disposable gown

I have never been given a drape for an exam though I have heard men talking about using one. I agree that it is weird.

I've never had a drape or gown offered for a physical. It's always been simply down to my boxers for the exam.

Never had a patient drape for a physical.

The only doctor I have ever had ask me to strip down to underwear and put on a gown is my dermatologist. She's a female and not exactly attractive, but I don't care. She has a female nurse in the room with us and I'm always in underwear and a gown. I like the fact that she has her hands all over my body looking at moles and such. Last time I was in, she asked me if I had ever done any nude sunbathing. I told her "no" but she wanted to check down there anyway. I didn't object. Unfortunately, she only looked for a second or two.

I know it's not a gynecologist or GP exam, but thought I would share anyway!

Lately I've been handed a folded sheet that I drape over my lap. The last time I was in a gown was when the nursing student was training with the NP. That gown must have been brand new and failed to conform to my body and felt like I was wearing a tepee dress like thing. I wanted to remove the stupid thing but NP Crankypants refused to allow me.

I have a new doc physical scheduled for next week. Can't wait for that experience!

When it reached the extreme point, I had a doctor's office offer a gown and a drape, which spoke to the level of the exam.

I was given a drape right before the rectal part of the exam to be done in the Sims position.

Yes, at a recent physical I described in a different post, the doctor asked me to put on a the gown with no thing on under it, as he stepped out for a minute.

For my last physical with my female PCP, I was completely naked except for a johnnie which was open in the front. Early in the exam it was completely removed.

For my last visit with my female dermatologist for a complete skin exam I was completely naked for the whole exam. No johnnie, no nothing to cover me.

I used to see a doctor in the Atlanta area that would ask that you undress completely nude, and he would give you a small drape to cover with while waiting. He called it a "modesty drape"

I used to see a doctor in the Atlanta area that would ask that you undress completely nude, and he would give you a small drape to cover with while waiting. He called it a "modesty drape"

My current doctor does the same thing. There's always a folded, disposable paper drape on the exam table.

I've gotten several physicals at various locations and it's always the same "strip to your underwear and the doctor will be in" I've never been offered a gown or drape. Recently my primary care providers don't have me take off more than my shirt and I've been to two different primary care clinics.

I have been both draped and undraped, on occasion. My wife prefers undraped, as she accompanies me to my physicals.

At my physicians office I get a cloth gown and a drape for my physical exams.

Ive worn only a drape its alot better that way

For my last doctor's visit, I was completely naked except for the very small johnnie that I had open in the front. I was fully exposed for the entire exam with a female doctor and her female med tech.

Ahh jealous!

I've always been fully clothed! Got close once with an RN taking out the gown just for the doctor to say we didn't need it.

Guy57,

Who are your female doctors who are fine with nudity? I haven't had a decent exam because of the unnecessary trend toward modesty. I stayed clothed.

Take care

My female doctor has me change out of all clothes and I am given a sheet to cover with. Better than a gown, easy to work with and for doc to get to everything. Nothing wired about this for me

At my clinic we use paper drapes for male and female patients , we always have patients remove all their clothing below the waist usually we just do a quick exam but its better to have them naked if we have to do a more detailed exam or procedures.

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Never just a drape but have been in a gown and told to use a cloth drape to cover my lower half once or twice some years ago. I thought it was strange that the nurse told me to take everything off and put on the gown that she left on the table. Then she said that the doctor also wanted his patients to have the cloth drape over their lower half. I did as I was told. I guess he didn't want his patients to be too exposed below the gown while they sat on the table. The few other times that I have been in a gown only, those doctors obviously didn't have that concern. I was usually in a short cloth gown that was came to above my knees when standing and about mid thigh when sitting.

I was once given a small plastic backed pad about a foot square to cover my genitals as I had an anoscopy exam to check for hemmoroids. It was rather embarrassing, but gratefully received as I got an erection as soon as the anoscope entered my anus.

I had to get my hip x-rayed when I was 10 or 12. The technician, a cute female, had me undress to my white briefs and put my heels together in a frog position.

Then she taped a little plastic(?) Disc on my underwear right over my penis. It was about the size of a silver dollar. She took one x-ray, removed the plastic disc from my underwear and told me I could get dressed.

I never knew what the disc was for. Keep radiation from my penis? Keep my penis from showing up on the x-ray? I never saw the x-rays so I don't know what the disc looked like when my mom and the doctor reviewed it.

Usually when they place some type of disc or object so that it appears in the xray, it indicates right or left side or is otherwise used to indicate patient positioning. But if she placed it directly over your penis, perhaps it was used to protect you from the rays. But I would think placing it over your testicles would be more important if that were the case.