Observed during your heart/lung auscultation

Hello. I just wonder how often you had been observed by other doctor, patient, alone person during your heart/lung auscultation Were there circumstances when you urged being auscultated your heart/lungs but you are out of doctor department? Had you been shirtless then or with unbottoned shirt, lifted T-shirt? Were there many people there? Please tell about and notice the country where this was held. I am originally from ancient URSS so we had many circumstances being auscultated together: only men or only women. Also men (boys) were auscultated in women's (girls) presence during school, university, job physicals, army conscriptions when there was a lack of examination rooms where all folks were gathered in one big hangar for their madical examinations. All men (boys) remain only either in their underware or in trousers but always barechested without shirt or T-shirt. It was only a routine of medical examination. Without any sexual threaten or harass pretext. Only a job for doctors or necesssary process for patients no more. So since then I have not any discomfort or shyness being auscultated or examined in public. Anybody else with the same feeling? Thanks.

Uhm...I never thought about this, but yes it happened once that I was being auscultated in front of other people.

It happened in Germany I don't remember how many years ago, I think 4 or 5... but whatever. I had to go to the ER because of a small accident where I broke and cracked several ribs. Since I didn't speak a word of German I had to have my friend with me, she was sorta translating for me... well mostly she was giving them totally wrong answer but... she was really trying to be helpful.

I was really embarrassed to be examined in front of her. The doctor (who finally spoke a bit of english) was nice enough to let me keep my shirt on seeing how embarrassed I was and slip his hand under it. But still... being asked to breathe deeply (And damn it, it hurt like hell!) and cough...(no problem there, since I bruised my lugs I was coughing nicely even without being asked to).

I remember I tried to avoid looking at everyone in the eyes. The nurses there were highly amused because I couldn't understand them... and my friend was....curious to say the least. I remember I felt her gaze upon me...which didn't help much with my situation, between the pain and embarrassment it's a wonder the doctor could hear anything from my lungs.

At all of my exams at school in Scotland we were all examined in the gym in just our boxers, so we all got to see our male classmates being stethed as we went round in turn from station to station.

Once I was at the doctor (I was a child)and he asked to my father if he wanted to hear my heart at the apex because it was very loud....I was incredibly scared!!!

"Sergi"

I was living in France

I have known a lot of physical examination at school and university, for military service and at jobs,and for auscultation we were not only bare chested ( it is at an examination by a private doctor at his office that we are bare chested to be auscultated) but generally just in briefs since for instance at school we were instructed to undress in group in a locker room in briefs and even sometimes in the nude at high school.

At jobs physical examination, I was in brief for all the examination

For military service I was stark naked

Except for military service where we were only examined by male persons and supervised also while stark naked by male persons ( no women present, even no female nurse) the doctors were generally women and assisted by one or two female nurses who could see all the examination taking notes to fill the medical form or helping the doctor or performing some exams like the weight, the height, the urine test, and so on ..

so to be auscultated bare chested was really not an issue for me, there is no embarrassment nor shy to be bare chested

and even the presence of women would not be a source of embarrassment so long as it is allowed to keep the trousers

"Sergi"

I am still living in France

My experience at school was in the last 50's and until middle of the 60's and my first draft physical examination was in the middle of the 60's and my inducvtion after university studies in the first 70's while my jobs physical examination were annual fsince the middle of the 70 's

I passed out while in the subway. Someone called an ambulance. The doctor checked my heart Just being in the subway. Long Auscultation, measured my blood pressure several times. And all this is seen by hundreds of people.

First at school when we had nothing to show. About 14 at summer camp (underwear on)

My first real time naked when it was done was when I had a physical in prison along with the rest of that days intake.

I have just come out of hospital and during morning rounds we were all examined in front of each other - no gowns or curtains around the bed.

Care to say more of your experiences Mellow, they sound fasinating. What is this summer camp thing and why a medical

Hi nurse, love your country.

The summer camp is an great American institution where you get away from home for a few weeks. I assume the medical was about insurance, nothing invasive we just had to line up in our bra and panties and they did the normal thing like heart, lungs and skeleton and I loved it.

The prison thing was a lot more different, but still a turn on. We were ushered into a room and told to strip. I had only just left HS so was use to the locker room but you could see a lot of the older women were not so happy. After a bit we were led to the communal shower and after that moved to another room where they carried out the same type of physical as summer came and that is where my love of med fet started.

Once I was in the hospital being monitored for seizures that I have. Two nursing students came in and took turns auscultating me under my hospital gown as practice. My then-boyfriend, now husband, was watching the whole thing. I'm surprised they didn't comment on my heart rate!

My tale comes in 2 parts and is different from the rest.

I come from a time when you were a virgin up to your wedding night. I joined the forces and had the medical, 30 odd teens in a room naked, with females dr and nurses present. This was the first time I had been naked in front of a woman of the same age as me. It was a full physical.

When I got married we moved to German. Any sex was done in the dark and the most I had seen of my wife was when she was in her underwear. She thought she was pregnant so I took her to the local dr. We sat in the reception and waited until a nurse came out of the dr room and called her name. I was a prepared to wait as you did in the UK but the nurse beckoned me into the room. Confused I followed, the nurse who spoke good English told my wife to undress, looking at me she said no, which was no good as the nurse just carried on undressing her. She was down to her underwear and that was where she thought it would end, but several sharp words by the nurse and she resigned herself to be naked. When she was, she was maneuvered by the nurse to sit on a paper towel that covered a chair by the dr.

My wife was bright red with genuine embarrassment, and a look of thunder because I was obviously enjoying the situation. After the questions came the exam, and I did not know that was what they did to women. The exam came to an end and she was lead back to the chair still naked when he said she was pregnant.

She got up and got dressed and we left. After that our sex life rocketed, we had sex in the outdoors, in the light and watched porn films to get tips.

Excluding the pediatric evaluations when I was a Child (home exam or in outpatient setting, always with my mother present) and military visits, I remember when I was at the hospital for a hernia operation, more or less ten years old: when I arrived I was brought to an exam room for the admission visit, with a Senior doctor and Three young doctors (+ a nurse), asked me to remove everything except for the pants, for a long and careful General exam by the young doctors (ENT, BP, Thoracic percussion and lung and heart auscultation, from the back and then Lying down the table), finally the Senior doctor came to me, removed my pants, made a long and careful abdominal and genital exam explaining everything to the young doctors, with me fully nude...

Before going out the hospital the scene was practicaly repeated, this time in my room, with the other boy (and his mother...) that assisted to my complete physical exam, as usual concluded with me fully nude (and of course I assisted at the same scene with the other guy..)

I recently collapsed at work due to low blood sugar levels. A female colleague accompanied me to hospital. Once I had been given some glucose in the Ambulance and eaten a biscuit or two while I was in a cubicle I had pretty much made a full recovery. I was chatting to my colleague as I sat up in bed. I had been given a gown to wear which fastened up at the back, my shirt had been taken off when I was in the Ambulance and some wires had been stuck on my chest. A doctor entered and after a quick chat asked to listen to my chest. My colleague sat at the foot of the bed looking a little awkward as I slipped off my gown. I was asked to breathe in and out as the doctor listened to my chest and back. I think if it had been my colleague in my place I would have probably left the cubicle. I think my exam interested her as we have spoke about it since.

I recently had a coworker listen to my heart. And as she did another coworker (also female) was watching us. I wasn't really nervous because I know them and I like them. It was really nice because she really concentrated on my heartbeat 😃

Back in 1987 at the age of 39 I had a heart attack including full cardiac arrest in the ER. But for two shots of TPA (Tissue plasminogen activator) I would not have survived. The shots were the first given by that hospital and were still considered experimental and expensive ($2800 apiece).

Once I was back to work I ran into the EKG nurse that worked the ER and she asked me to stop by the hospital and talk with the staff about how well I thought the shots worked.

I found myself stripped to the waist with not only three Doctors waiting to do heart auscultation but four nurses also. There was a long discussion as to the cost benefit of the shots. I really didn’t mind as all of these people had been instrumental in my recovery.

As far as I was concerned I was alive so the shots were well worth it.

At my last cardiology appointment, there was a young (handsome 😉 ) doctor observing my exam. Completely embarrassing for me, but also kind of awesome!

I have had medical students try and listen to my heart beat since it is very strong.

Only when i was a little child and my mother was with me. but i would really like to get examined by a bunch of students