Underwear during surgery?

" modesty and privacy the least they could for the support staff is to give same gender teams without any hassle."

When I had bypass surgery 21 years ago I was NOT happy about that male nurse who assisted me in the shower. He was very professional and a good nurse but I was still uncomfortable, so same sex wouldn't work for me. As for the surgical team, I didn't care and I was out when they inserted the catheter so I don't know who did that.

Actually since Obamacare caused me and the wife to lose our life long doctor we both chose a female doctor so maybe females don't like males while males prefer females too. When we chose our family doctor over 40 years ago there were no female doctors in our town so it had to be a male.

That's just it though people this day and age get to much choice on what they want as you say 40 year ago there was very few female doctors unless you lived in big towns and the same for male nurses so you just had to put up with what was available then be it male or female, even here in England it was the same it's only over the last 20 year or so that more females have become doctors and GPs
When your asleep on the operating table how do you know they haven't wheeled you out the hospital paraded you round the car park naked for all to see before they start it's simpley a case of trust and patient confidentiality, all you what believe the stupid stories you here about everyone being able to see you naked on the table unless you have actual proof and I'm not talking about proof what a friend of a friend that knows someone who works in a hospital said it's all rubbish and a lack of trust on your part no one else's.

For those wanting to see "real" change in the US healthcare system such as the ability to get same gender care without all the grief, NOW is the time.

They are in the process of crafting a new healthcare bill. Get on those phones, and write those letters to the powers that be in Washington telling them YOU WANT CHANGE.

Tell them to STOP listening to the industry and start listening to you the patient.

CPR.

Three letters that have a great deal of meaning to the healthcare profession.

Turns out, those same three letters have a great deal of importance to the rest of us also.

Choice.

The healthcare industry put protections in place years ago to protect a woman's privacy and dignity. Case in point, mammograms and childbirth.

Rarely if ever do you see male x-ray technicians giving a woman her annual mammogram nor will you see a male nurse in a woman's delivery room.

That happened because women opened their mouths and complained loud enough so the industry had to listen and make the change.

If the healthcare industry is going to give women a gender Choice and put protections in place for their intimate related tests and procedures then the industry has a moral and ethical obligation to provide that same level of Choice and protections to their male patients.

Privacy.

Every healthcare worker should ALWAYS protect their patient's privacy as if they were protecting their own. The new healthcare bill should take camera phones out of the hands of all hospital employees while on duty. Leave them in the lockers. Get caught first time, get sent home. Second time, week off no pay. Third time, you're fired. Too many unauthorized pictures are being taken and put out on the internet for anyone to see.

Respect.

Show the same level of respect to all your patients that you'd expect to be shown if it was you in their place.

Doctors take an oath to Do No Harm.

Well, Do No Harm & our CPR go hand in hand.

You can’t have one without the other and successfully take care of the public you serve.

Any new healthcare bill must include equality and CPR for both sexes not just one.

Regards,
NTT

It's interesting now when people are fighting for the right to use whatever restroom they feel like using at the same time the "same gender" issue is coming along in healthcare. WTF? If you are a male who feels like a female you want to use the girls room and if you're a female who feels like a male you want to be able to use the boys room. When I was in Canada racing years ago there were no boys or girls rooms, just restrooms. That certainly would end all the boys and girls room fighting that's going on today in the states.

It is patient body getting operated, not doctors.

I am a young female. I have severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. I get panic attacks that bring my heart rate up to 200 beets per min (norm is 60-100). During these attacks I hyperventilate so much that I can't move my face or hands, and they get stuck in a certain position. I usually will also cry uncontrollably. Depending on the anxiety I have over the situation, I might start to have convulsions. I might start screaming. I have also in the past started to display really weird behaviors during or after the attacks. I remember having a physical when I was about 12 years old. I ended up leaning over the trash can in the exam room Throwing up. I also remember breaking down into hysteria begging the nurse not to make me wear a gown. That was the first day that I looked at my chest and I could actually see my heart beating. That happens all the time now. Just listening to people talk about going to the hospital and having to take their underwear off makes me want to harm myself. If I ever have surgery I am not taking my underwear off. It's my way or the highway. They probably will throw me in the phsych ward after seeing me curled up in a ball completely losing my mind in the waiting room. If they forced to take them off then I will threaten to slit my wrist. If I'm ever taken to the hospital and am conscious enough to know what's going on and they start taking my cloth , then they better be careful that they don't get bitten. I don't give a RATS ASS about infection, I know all about it I have OCD. I don't give a FLYING f**k that they are doctors and nurses "and they have seen it all." I'm an LNA so don't try explaining that "they're doing their job" BS to me cause I've heard over and over again in therapy and it only infuriates me even more. I have never heard of anyone with the same problem as me. If there is someone out there reading this, that experiences the same things as me just know you are not alone, you have me. And if you are a health care provider reading this please consider that some off your paitients are suffering

I am a young female. I have severe anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder. I get panic attacks that bring my heart rate up to 200 beets per min (norm is 60-100). During these attacks I hyperventilate so much that I can't move my face or hands, and they get stuck in a certain position. I usually will also cry uncontrollably. Depending on the anxiety I have over the situation, I might start to have convulsions. I might start screaming. I have also in the past started to display really weird behaviors during or after the attacks. I remember having a physical when I was about 12 years old. I ended up leaning over the trash can in the exam room Throwing up. I also remember breaking down into hysteria begging the nurse not to make me wear a gown. That was the first day that I looked at my chest and I could actually see my heart beating. That happens all the time now. Just listening to people talk about going to the hospital and having to take their underwear off makes me want to harm myself. If I ever have surgery I am not taking my underwear off. It's my way or the highway. They probably will throw me in the phsych ward after seeing me curled up in a ball completely losing my mind in the waiting room. If they forced to take them off then I will threaten to slit my wrist. If I'm ever taken to the hospital and am conscious enough to know what's going on and they start taking my cloth , then they better be careful that they don't get bitten. I don't give a RATS ASS about infection, I know all about it I have OCD. I don't give a FLYING f**k that they are doctors and nurses "and they have seen it all." I'm an LNA so don't try explaining that "they're doing their job" BS to me cause I've heard over and over again in therapy and it only infuriates me even more. I have never heard of anyone with the same problem as me. If there is someone out there reading this, that experiences the same things as me just know you are not alone, you have me. And if you are a health care provider reading this please consider that some off your paitients are suffering

YOU GO LADY !!! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU, I'M GETTING READY FOR KNEE SURGERY AND HAVE SEARCHED MANY COMPLAINTS AND KNOW WHAT TO DO.
THANK YOU FOR BEING ONE OF THE BRAVE, REALLY !!!

Why do you think they wear surgical scrubs not street clothes? To reduce bacteria.

Then you have vety immature friends.

Did anyone else notice that every lame "reason" given by Guest for removing underwear was for the NURSES convenience?
Betadine soaked undies? Heaven forbid!
You forgot who works for whom. You've been at it way too long.

Judy-
You said it! As far as being "Professionals", the same could be said of prostitutes- they're professionals and they've seen hundreds of naked men. I'll wager the male medical professional's wives wouldn't want their husbands patronizing them though.

I love what you said. I have real issues with the no matter what surgery they want you naked. Then they totally expose you spread yours legs, put them up in stirrups, tilt you upside down, have everyone in the world including janitors, cafeteria workers, the high schooler next door come in and look you over etc. Bull c**p is what it is. If they insist on us being naked then by gosh give up same gender support staff. I'll choose my doctor on my like for them. Will get more than one opinion. But, we have no choice on who else is in the room.

Bull c**p. Nothing in there can be totally sterile. The scrubs, docs etc have hair hanging out, wear clothes under scrubs, not sterile. You are naked to make it convient for them to totally remove your gown and leave you exposed until they damn well get ready to cover you. I don't give a damn if they get me soiled. If not on my private areas I will wear a depend that I put on there and I will take a bleached and bagged sport bra so I can wear it. No more nice woman. Been abused enough. And my poor husband refuses to ever go back for urinary or prostate procedures because of the awful nurses, scrub techs and cnas he has had to endure.

And most of those doing the prep are not even nurses. They are scrub techs and cnas who have much less training.