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It depends on the examination. If you're going to a gyno, the answer is yes. If you're going to have your tonsils checked, then NOOOOO
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It depends on your doctor. Most will give you drapes of some sort and uncover only what they need to look at, a little at a time. That said, a physical should include a pretty thorough search for skin cancer, so your doctor is going to need to look at all of your skin, including scalp, as you can get skin cancer where you part your hair. Whichever gender you are, getting cancer in reproductive organs is not uncommon, so those parts need to be checked regularly too. Cells in reproductive organs tend to divide frequently and the more frequently a cell divides, the more likely it will make a mistake and form a cancer. So yes, in order to examine you properly, a good doctor should look at ALL of you. But he/she doesn't have to look at all of you at the same time. For modesty's sake, they can give you a gown and a sheet and only uncover what they are looking at at that moment.
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It is the Doctor who must decide what parts of your body should be uncovered for him to conduct the physical examination thoroughly. I do not think total nudity will be required for any physical examination for specific problems. Even for examination of a hernia you don't need to uncover the upper part of the body. So my answer in it is not normal.
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In my experience and from actually working with doctors, I know of only one age of person that should be nude for a medical examination. That is the infant or very young child. Pediatric physicians want to look at the entire body to check for defects that might be missed if they are covered. This examination includes the newborn in the hospital, the first baby exams when well child exams are done (sick also) during the first year or so of life. Any other person can have a gown or robe of some type to cover the parts not involved in the exam or just brifely removed for specific exams. Not embarrasing the patient is part of the concern of doctors as well as the rest of society.
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Not usually. My yearly gyn exam is the only one where I'm totally nude, since she does both breast and pelvic exams My primary care doc almost always has me keep my panties and bra on. The bra will come off if I need an EKG. Whoever said dignity was important was absolutely right. It's hard to take an equal part in the doctor-patient relationship if you're not wearing any clothes!
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It's normal to be nude UNDER a gown during a physical. Even in a gynecological exam you should have the parts not being checked covered and you should never be sitting there totally nude. At both my annual gynecological check and my annual head to toe physical I keep the gown on at all times. I will pull it down to my waist so he can check my breasts, but my genitals will still be covered. When he's checking my vagina I have my breasts covered.
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IT DEPENDS ON YOUR DOCTOR AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING NUDE.IF YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT THEY DON'T EITHER.IF THEY ARE A GOOD DOCTOR YOU WILL BE NUDE FOR THEM TO CHECK YOU OUT.
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No it isn't, I have never known it be normal practice to have a patient completely nude during a physical examination. I work in a hospital setting and if a patient needs to be nude, for example a vaginal examination they are always given a gown to put on and during the vaginal examination the gowm is raised and a sheet is draped over the patient to ensure their dignity, not even when our patients are in labour are they completely nude unless they want to be which is very rare, it is totally unnecessary to have a patient completely nude, I also think that the practitioner is leaving themselves open to a allegations of sexual abuse especially if their isn't a chaperone with him/her. If a doctor or anyone else asked me to take all my clothes of for an examination and they did not give me a gown to put on or a very good reason why I needed to be nude I would refuse and report them.
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When I was 13 my mother told me that unless the doctor states otherwise one should always completely strip off for any form of medical examination and this is what I have done since then. When working in Scandinavia this was not considered to be abnormal to stand completely naked before a doctor and it never seemed to worry anyone. On return to the UK I have noted that doctors are more likely to ask one to only take off the very minimum of clothes but everyone one seems far more self conscious about these sort of things today even if they are more likely to jump into a bed with a stranger and when completely naked, and with a person they have hardly ever met - let alone a medical doctor. It seems as if we have rushed back Victorian values in the last few decades with one form of morality but still want the free sexual love we once associated with too much permissiveness.
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Well better during a physical than say an eye examination. That would be strange.
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Personally, I have fantasies about being naked in front of my doctors - both of whom are female. But it just never happens like I fantasize! The dermotologist checks me for skin cancer once a year, and had not ever checked me out naked. Last appointment, I asked her about a spot on my penis and she pulled the front of my underwear down and checked it up, held "me" in her hands. Said it was just a freckle basically. It was done professionally, and not like my fantasy at all! Darn! I expected legs in stirrups and a closer inspection, with lights, and magnifying thing, a couple hot nurses, etc. Maybe a few other patients (females) walk in accidentally. The receiptionist comes in and asks doctor to sign for a package (and checks out my package!) Ahhhh, fantasies are always better than reality! Btw, if there are any female nurses/doctors out there reading this and laughing... call me, get your co-workers together, and we could make my fantasy come true!
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