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For My annual Physical which includes the digital exam, it is place the paper gown on - slit in the back. Nude underneath this paper gown. I sit on the exam table and the doctor comes in. Does all the checking and talking. Then the pull up the gown as I am now standing up for the complete testicle, penis and hernia check. Then, turn around and bend over and the digital exam.

Normal routine.

Certainly nothing to fear or to be afraid of.

By the way, your body is not the first one the Doctor/s have ever seen. Then even see nude bodies while they attend Medical School.
 

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I've always viewed the USA medical way a power thing. "Here, strip and put this on." Leaving you vulnerable and feeling at a substantial disadvantage with the Doctor. Therefore, on those occasions I have needed to consult a US physician I ignore the medical assistant's, nurse's, or PA's instructions and greet the doctor fully clothed when he or she finally enters the examination room. I'm certain someone, somewhere, sometime thought having patients strip and wear gowns would save tons of time so doctors could quickly see more patients. In which case, that's there problem and not mine.

Outside the USA, specifically in Europe and South America, physicians tend to be more considerate and substantially more professional regarding their bedside manner when dealing with patients. If they need you to remove an article of clothing or completely strip and wear a gown, they have screens in examination rooms behind which you can remove your clothes. The idea that you have to wear a gown to see your ear/nose/throat specialist just for to take swab for a strep throat infection and or bronchitis is just isn't the norm, unless the physician needs to see a rash or something else.

That's very enlightening to hear this. My new gynecologist doesn't give you a gown until after she visits with you for a while about your physical and mental health. This helps break down the barriers between doctor and patient. She is truly revolutional in her thinking. I didn't know what to think when the nurse escorted me into the room and said, don't get undressed until after Dr. has sat down and spoken with you. She likes to be on eye level with you also.

I think the rush to get patients in and out quickly has this mindset never approached. It also has to do with how they are trained and how the doctors apprenticing them have practiced.

I recently saw a plastic surgeon that spent about an hour visiting with me in his office about my ideas and expectations prior to having his assistant take me to an examining room. I hope this trend of psychophysiological understanding is on the rise.
 

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I had my annual (sort of) physical yesterday. After all the preliminary stuff, I stripped down to boxers and the dumb gown. After he did the preliminary poking and prodding, it was drop the boxers (but keep the gown) for the penis and testicle check, and turn your head and cough for the hernia.

Bend over the table for the Digital Rectal Exam. (Last time I'd kept the boxers around my ankles, but this year I just pulled them off.) I was more or less dressed when the Good Nurse came in to draw blood. (The Bad Nurse is so bad I faint while she's digging around looking for the vein she misplaced.)

I talked to my doc about how dumb the gown was. He said he didn't care; I could be naked if I felt like it. Maybe next time.

I'm not very modest. I haven't been since I was 11 or so, and I don't care if people see me or any part of me when I'm naked. How "modest" can you be in one of dumb gowns slit up the back, anyway?

I suppose I'll hear about all the lab work in a week or so.
 

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Am I the only one who goes to a physical wearing normal clothes? I never get to strip down to underwear and a gown. When he checks my dick, I pull down my shorts and then pull them back up when he's done.
 

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The last exam I had the doc told me to drop my pants and boxers I was standing there in the nude while he looked around, the other time I went in for a sports physical the dude just reached down into my pants cuffed my balls and had me cough
 
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I did the paper gown thing once. Not doing it again.

My present doctor doesn't check anything below the waist. It's pretty easy but I'm also concerned he's not being thorough enough. Now that I'm in my 40s I think it's important to be more so.
 

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Jason,
He's not thorough enough. In my relatively small circle of acquaintances I have heard of thre cases of prostate cancer before the age of forty. ONe was a guy in my dorm in college. One was the father of a client. One was the running buddy of my massage therapist.
ALso, age wise, you are not out of the woods for testicular cancer. Find an internist. Please.
Dave
 

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Great advice Dave NoCal I'm glad your on these threads.

To the original post:

Yes I wear a gown but naked underneath.
Doctors would ask me to wear underwear when I was a kid (instead of a gown but I didn't know that) because of modesty with kids that age, but they haven't asked me to do that in a long time.
I was never asked to remain clothed. It was always underwear or a gown.
I've yet to have a nude one but may request one on my next visit. I don't like doctors reaching up my shirt and stuff. I also don't like doctors that skip or barely do certain stuff with the privates. I've never had a decent prostate check. This is not a sexual thing for me, I don't like fingers up there. Other stuff, maybe.
 

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My current doctor has me to remove all clothing including underwear. I am then given a drape, which is about the size of a bath hand towel, to place across my legs. Obviously, for the penis/testicle and DRE exams I am standing and completely nude. Other doctors have had me strip down to my underwear and then remove them when needed. During all of my exams in the past 15 years, I have been completely naked at some point and never offer a gown. This seems to be routine being a male patient going to a male doctor.
 

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What are most doctors doing now for checkups?
1. Have you wear a gown.
2. Have you wear just underwear
3. Clothed until you drop 'em
4. Nude

I just had a physical today, #2 applies to me. Only had to pull down my boxers for a bit so he could examine my testicles.
 

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My doctor of 18 months here in Florida has never seen me in anything less than what I would wear to lunch at a nice restaurant. He listens to my chest through my shirt, checks my blood pressure over my sleeve, and asks if I have any complaints.

My previous doctor of 15 years in San Francisco would do an annual physical; she or the nurse would set a gown in the room and tell me to take off everything but socks and underpants. She'd leave and come back 5 minutes later to do the physical.