Subject: She May Have Thought What She Did Was Necessary
Author: Karen
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] Date Posted:21:17:12 10/27/09 Tue In reply to:
Carol
's message, "Unnecessary exposure" on 16:45:20 10/21/09 Wed
Your idea of necessary may not be the same as the person doing your procedure. In the case mentioned, the girl may have been taught to remove all coverings over a wider area than the patient thought was necessary.
In case of doctors, nurses, and physicians' assistants doing complete physicals, there are many different schools, some in foreign countries, where the examination technique may differ. Some, but not many, have learned to require the patient to wear nothing at all for a complete examination.
Others allow gowns or even underwear.
Date Posted:21:19:59 10/27/09 Tue
I do agree, after a hernia operation a few years back, when i went to my doctors to have the stitches removed i was sent into see the nurse. And although the stitches were well above my pubic region she had me lower my trousers and underwear to my knees. She took just a few seconds removing the stitches and the next couple of minutes examining my penis and scrotum and asking me questions about the effect the operation had had on them.
Date Posted:01:27:20 10/28/09 Wed
Karen: How about caregivers communicate with patients. How about caregivers climb or crawl out of their boxes and learn different ways of doing things -- because people are different and have different comfort levels. What needs to be done needs to be done. That doesn't mean there's only one way to do it and that patients are objects that just need repairing. There are people, human beings attached to those bodies and parts that need fixing.
"Why sweat it? Let the caregivers do it their way.
It's not about sweating it. It's about respect and dignity.
Date Posted:23:48:34 10/30/09 Fri
...How about caregivers climb or crawl out of their boxes and learn different ways of doing things...
...It's not about sweating it. It's about respect and dignity...
RK, seriously... I don't know what issues you had when you were growing up, but wow. Healthcare isn't about respect and dignity, and caregivers don't need to climb or crawl out of their boxes as you say.
Healthcare is about medicine, and illness, and diagnosis, healing, curing and recovery. A person who is covered up in a parka on the exam table with no skin exposed during a cursory exam is far more likely to have something missed by the doctor than somebody who (god forbid!) is on the exam table mostly naked.
It's paranoia like this which leads to our modern day brief physicals because the doctor is more concerned about preventing a lawsuit from somebody like you for possibly looking at their groin for 1/10 of a second longer than they absolutely have to, quite possibly missing something life threatening in the process in their haste.
Date Posted:21:47:47 10/31/09 Sat
I agree that "Healthcare is about medicine, and illness, and diagnosis, healing, curing and recovery" but I disagree when you say that "Healthcare isn't about respect and dignity". I think it is about both. A healthcare professional can do both. Non-professionals either do one or the other or neither.
