Tie gown or leave it undone?

Ladies,when you change into the gown for your (real) yearly physical do you tie the gown in the back or because it's going to come down anyway at some point, just leave it undone?

What a good question! My current female Gyn asks me to slip on a gown with the opening in the front and to leave it untied. When I asked her why she wanted the gown to open in the front (as my previous male Doctor did not), the current Doctor responded that, "Everything that I am interested in is located in the front!". 😉

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The nurse always tells me to slip it on with the opening in the front and leave it untied so I do. 😃

My wife leaves it undone, open in the front.

Here is a question for real doctors.

The scenario I have in mind goes like this:

Patient suspects she has a yeast infection, some STD or a menstrual issue.

Is it a probable that examiner will omits the breast exam therefore the patient is only asked to strip from the waist down and don a gown with the opening towards the back.

Remember this is not a full physical, the purpose of a visit is to get checked out for STD and yeast infections only. Lets say she just had her full physical say less than three months ago.

Is this scenario realistic.

Qv

While I am not a doctor, I am a real nurse and yes, the scenario is very realistic. It probably wouldn't matter if she hadn't had a physical in 3 years. Reality is what it is, and time is the biggest factor here with most appointments.

If a patient calls in to see the doc for a vaginal issue, that's what gets examined. Chances are the scheduler has put her into a 30 minute time slot, a complete physical would require a longer time slot. The doc during this exam would probably let his patient know that she needed to make an appointment for a physical, but to go ahead and do one during this visit probably wouldn't happen.

Medicine is a business and like any business, cost control is an important factor to profit margins. If the practice uses laundered gowns and sheets they pay by number used, likewise if they use disposable paper products they have a cost of consumable supplies. The price per reusable gown or sheet may be the same, however typically a disposable patient drape sheet costs less than a disposable gown. As a result I would expect that if the patient only needed to undress waist down it would be most practical and economical to give the patient a sheet rather than a gown.

My doctor used to use a exam cape and a sheet which the cape could not be closed in the front. Now she uses a long disposable paper gown, but I leave the front open.

As most of the ladies here, open and undone

The gown is something very american, most european countries don't use that. Gives a false sense of modesty anyway.

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I just leave it undone. And open in the front. No point in tieing up if its just gooing to be removed.

I do not tie the gown either.

I have always been told to put the gown open to the back and i don't tie it, that would be a huge pain, lol.

My wife does not tie the gown. She is not given a sheet to put over her lap either so I always have a good view of whats going on.

I dont tie it, i love the feeling of maybe being a little sexy for my exam. my loves it to, hes there during my exam.

Open in back never tied. Just love it when he take hold of the shoulders of the gown and pulls it down to do my breasts.

I have never tied mine...the gown I get it paper and I just leave it undone. I figure why bother it will have to be untied in just a few anyway

Open in front not tied per the doctor request

I never tie them. The Dr is going to untie for the exam.

The doctor would usually use a paper open-back gown

As a guy, I never undress for my regular physicals, the doc just has me remove whatever I need to at the time. For X-Rays and other exams that do require gowns, my experience is that tying a paper gown is something of a fool's errand, because the damn things usually rip if one tries to tie them.

I want my patients to tie the gown. I also give them paper panties to wear. The gradual untying, and the eventual and excruciatingly slow cutting away of the panties, is all part of the play.

My fiancee told me she is given a sleeveless paper vest/drape which is open in the back and comes down in front just under her breasts. She puts a paper sheet over her legs to prepare for a full exam. She wears easily removable clothing and shoes to the exam. She likes to leave her socks on and insists on having socks of the season. Her last exam was close to christmas so she wore her "ho ho ho" stockings. She brought her exam vest home and modeled it that evening.

Cloth gown, opening in the front and tied at the waist. The doctor unties it when needed.

Mostly for me it's been paper vest and a paper sheet. No option to tie it.

I leave the cloth gown untied and open. It will be off soon enough anyway.

All the exams I have had the pleasure of witnessing involved a cloth gown and the doctor always instructs to put the gown on with the opening in the front. Do any of you ladies have the experience of the doctor telling you to have the opening in the back when the doctor is going to do a breast exam? If so, do you then have to take it completely off the shoulders so that both breasts are exposed at the same time? Never seen that done before...

My wife says she never ties her gown either. Like a lot of others here have said, it's just going to get untied when the doctor comes in anyway.

If it's a paper gown, I don't bother. But if it's a cloth gown, I generally do tie it in the back.

At my gynecologist I get a paper vest with opening to the front and it has no ties. At my checkup with my Family Practice doctor, I get a longer cloth gown with opening to the back as instructed, which I do not bother to tie. I just kind of pull it together so it is mostly closed after I take a seat on the exam table to wait for the doctor.