How are you asked to undress?

I love the use of the verb "asked" in reference to how we were instructed to undress.

At my pediatrician's office in the 1960's, the nurse was an old battle axe who went to the Nurse Ratchett School of Nursing. The only words she ever directed at me were when I entered the exam room and she said, "You know the drill!" She was right. I knew to take off everything and not argue about it.

As I grew older, the tone changed. Some of the nurses didn't want to say how much to take off. Not wanting to let them off the hook, I would ask how much the doctor needed to see.

A few weeks ago, I had somecancerous lesion removed and I had to do it as an out patient. The nurse who was in charge of getting me ready was one of my former students. She turned several shades of crimson as she handed me a gown and a robe and said, "I need everything off including socks and underwear."

I had a examination by a female pediatrician three times 14 15 and 16. The first two times the doctor escorted me to the exam room and after exchanging words, she would tell me "OK, I need you to take off all of your clothes, including your underwear, and we'll get started."

"Please strip and put on the gown, opens in the back, you could leave your underwear on", that is always what I was told in the doctor's office.

'Strip down to your underpants and socks', or on one occasion with GP 'take everything off just leave your pants on, take your socks off to.

Well for me, as a doc, it really depends on the exam, where I am doing it, and why, and sometimes on the patient. If I'm going to ask someone to get undressed, I'll usually start with an explanation. "I'm going to ask you to undress so that I can do a better job of examining you and have less risk of missing something imortant."

If I'm doing a full physical on a guy, I'll usually say, "Please take everything of except for your underpants."

For a female, I'll usually say, "Please take everything off except your underwear. You can leave your bra on. Put this gown on with the opening in the back." If I'm going to do a breast exam, I'll change the line about leaving the bra on. If I'm going to do a pelvic exam, it's usually after I've done the rest of the exam. I'll explain why I want to do a pelvic exam and then say, "I'm going to step out for a minute. Please take off your underwear and have a seat back on the table. You can put this sheet over your lap," as I hand the patient a bed sheet.

"Let your gown drop down"

Normally instructed to "strip to your underpants please"

At a recent play exam the Dr just instructed me to "undress please" - I assumed the normal & stripped to my underpants & waited. When he returned he was not impressed and reminded me when he says undress he means to remove everything

Has varied from ... "strip down to your underwear" to "everything off including your underwear, and then place the gown on with opening in the back" to "everything off, including underwear, and place drape over your lap."

I love hearing the words "everything off" !!

I had to take off only my shoes for weigh check and t-shirt. Anything more.

Just had my annual physical (work required). Previously, I was allowed to keep my bra and panties, but during the course of the exam, the RN or doctor usually asked me to remove them. This time the RN, in a somewhat humorous way, asked "should we skip the middle man and save the doctor a couple bucks?" I asked "how?" and she said, "do you think you really need that paper gown ... I've boosted the heat in the exam room, you should be comfortable." I agreed !

We did the weight and measurements and all the prelim stuff ... then I sat on the exam table and waited for the doctor who completed the exam. When He was done, he asked one more question, explainiing that if I objected, he would change his procedure in the future. He asked, "Were you comfortable without the paper gown?" I said it didn't matter to me, then I added, "I work a lot around the house like this and am quit comfortable being naked, but I am not a nudist, I don't go naked in public, but when I'm at the doctor's office, I know sooner or later I'm going to be naked, so I have no objection, just as long as I'm not cold ... and your RN did make the room comfortable. No objection!"

I have just been asked to take everything off, including your underwear, and have the opening in the back, but the only time I have needed to undress was before surgery.

I have had nurses tell me to remove my clothing and put on the gown, opening in the back. Thats an opened ended statement to me, so I remove all cloth, including underwear. One doc was caught off guard as she moved the gown up my torso exposing my lower half. She quickly covered and pulled out a small sheet and did the waiter change table cloth trick as she slid the sheet up my gown, then she was able to lift my gown without exposing me. I did not know what she was doing, if I had I would have told her it was not necessary.

At a derm exam the nurse says to me as she is running out of the room that I should remove my clothes and wait for the doctor. She stops and smiles saying that she does not have anything for the guys but if I had been a girl she could give me a paper gown to drape over my torso. Since I was not wearing underwear I was naked when the doctor came in. The first words out of her mouth were, 'I guess we will conduct a full body exam on you today". Well thats what I was there for!

It depends. Gyno will say... everything off, put the gown on opening in the front and drap over your lap. Regular doc never has me put a gown on.

When at school we were told in the changing room by our PE teacher "can everyone strip down to their underpants and when everyones ready we'll go down to the gym.

Nowadays it's simply a case of "can you strip down to your underwear please".

I've heard all of these.. "Get undressed and put this gown on".... "take everything off but your underwear & put this gown on" , "take everything off and you can leave your underwear on if you like".. or one time they said you can leave your underwear on "for now"... One time when asked to take everything off I asked including underwear ? and doctor said yes.. recently at the Dermatologist's when I went in for red / itchy groin the asst. said you can leave your underwear on & the doctor can "work around it".

If they ask me to take everything or get undressed and don't specify underwear I take everything off and put gown on... i used to really prefer having no underwear on and my last two physicals were like that but I got too cold that way so now I prefer underwear I think.. They are going to come down either way in the end..

I've had to put on a gown exactly 3 times in my life span, and all of them happened in a 6 month span. Only 1 time for an actual physical.

Most of the time, outer clothing, like jackets, are removed, and then the doctor works around the shirt. Pants and underwear get dropped for the turn-your-head-and-cough. The one time I was told to put on gown, the nurse handed me a "standard" hospital gown. Light cotton and way too short for my tall stature. I'm 6'5", and it came half way down my thigh. Anyways, the nurse hands me the gown and tells me "Take off all your clothes except for your underwear and socks and put this on, with the ties in the back". Of course, I had completely forgotten to put on underwear that day. I usually don't wear any except for special occasions (like doctors visits), but I was moving that day, and I didn't remember to run through my pre-physical checklist. But nobody said anything.

When there's no gown involved, the doc can get everything either through or under my t-shirt, and when it comes time for the downstairs, he tells me to stand up and pull my pants down.

"Take off your t-shirt please" .

I went to my family practice doc a while back for just a medication refill for allergies. She did a brief but relatively thorough exam while I was full dressed. I though we were done and she was about to hand me the prescription, when she said: "Take off everything from the waist down and I'll be right back." My jaw almost dropped.

I did as directed. No sooner had I taken off my boxers and put them on a chair, than the doctor returned with a grandmotherly looking nurse who seemed to be craning her neck to look at my bare ass. The doctor then proceeded to examine my penis. "Are you sexually active, young man?" She asked. Before I could answer she said to the nurse: "Get me a swab." Within a minute, she was inserting the swab into my penis. "Sorry about that, honey. Now turn around and bend over . . ."

No one ever explained why a visit for an allergy medicine refill required a penis swabbing and rectal exam . . .

A week or so later I got a call from the nurse informing me my STD test was negative. "Don't forget to wear condoms though . . ."

Attorney said:

I went to my family practice doc a while back for just a medication refill for allergies. She did a brief but relatively thorough exam while I was full dressed. I though we were done and she was about to hand me the prescription, when she said: "Take off everything from the waist down and I'll be right back." My jaw almost dropped.

I did as directed. No sooner had I taken off my boxers and put them on a chair, than the doctor returned with a grandmotherly looking nurse who seemed to be craning her neck to look at my bare ass. The doctor then proceeded to examine my penis. "Are you sexually active, young man?" She asked. Before I could answer she said to the nurse: "Get me a swab." Within a minute, she was inserting the swab into my penis. "Sorry about that, honey. Now turn around and bend over . . ."

No one ever explained why a visit for an allergy medicine refill required a penis swabbing and rectal exam . . .

A week or so later I got a call from the nurse informing me my STD test was negative. "Don't forget to wear condoms though . . ."

Here you say you are a male with a penis.

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you say you are a woman in your mid twenties.

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I cannot remember all the terms nurses or doctors used to me to order me for taking off my clothes. At the most exams it was usual that I had to get undressed completely, mostly by my paediatrician, by the derm and by the gastro-doc, but also by some others.

I remember, that nurses by the dermatologist - after they had called and taken me and my mom into the exam room - often asked "Ah, Michael is there for the complete mole exam?! He is completely full of moles from head to feet, right?!" and my mom always said yes and the nurses told me then "So, he has to undress completely naked" or "so, he has to take off completely everything now" and ordered me then to lie down on the table and to wait for the doctor, who "will be in at once". But often, that last a longer time then!

Another situation, I remember, was at an complete general exam by the paediatrician. Usually, I had to take off everything during the preparating exams like weighting and measurements by the nurses, so that I normally came completely naked into the doctors room. But on time, I still had my pants on, when I was ordered to lay down on the exam table by the nurse and to wait for the doctor. When he came in then, he greeted my mom and came then to me to the table, said no word, but took my pants down and off and gave it to my mom. Then he talked to my mom about my actual problems since my last visit while the nurse came in again. At that moment he rant and raved at her why I still had my pants on, because she had to know that I always have to take off my pants off, too, and that I always would be examined completely naked! I was really shocked at that moment.

At my physical exams I'm handed a cloth gown by the nurse then asked to undress and leave my underpants on.

My favorite phrase would probably sound something like "Take all of your clothes off, including your underwear, and hop up on the table, I'll be back shortly"

At my annual well woman with the gynecologist, the nurse (as she is taking the paper outfit from the drawer and setting on the table) willl typically say "OK Jill, please go ahead and undress completely including bra and panties, place the gown opening to the front and the drape over your lap. Have a seat on the table when you're ready, doctor will be in shortly."

At my family practice doctor for my checkup, the nurse (pulling the cloth gown from the drawer and handing it to me) typically says something like "go ahead and disrobe and change into the gown, opening to the back. There's a sheet here to cover with, she'll be in momentarily."

The last time I had a physical, I was handed the gown but wasn't told what to take of. I played it safe and left boxers on.

At my dermatologist exams, the nurse pulls out the cloth gown and drape as she tells me "Everything off, opening in the back. The drape goes over your legs and is functional, so do don't wad it up and throw it on the floor. Have a seat on the table, the doctor and I will be back shortly."

The nurse pulls out the gown and says you know the drill... "Everything off including the underwear".

When I went for my latest Colonoscopy it was "here's a gown take everything off since it only gets in the way".

As for the GP it was "same old, same old, everything off put this on and hop up on the table".

"Can you remove your clothes for me ?"

The nurse takes me into the room and pulls out the sheet and the vest, lays both of them on the exam table and tells me to take everything off. Opening in the front and have a seat on the exam table.