![]() ![]() I didn’t want to appear too forward by getting too naked at the doctor or look like a big American prude by sitting there in my bra. He chuckled and just said sit down and he rolled up my tank top instead. He asked me to take off my top and I wasn’t sure if he meant my bra too so I asked. I think.) before getting a referral to the physical therapist, he had to examine my back. I guess the French are used to being naked at the doctor, but I’m not.Ī nude medical exam isn’t a bad thing per se, but the medical nudity comfort level here is a cultural difference I’m not really digging.Īnd even at my regular doctor (who is pretty young and someone I embarrass myself often in front of, but we’re cool now, it’s OK. And for the record, at the gynecologist, you get completely naked right in front of the doctor, don’t get a gown to put on and do not get a sheet to cover your private area during the examination. I learned right away how easy-breezy an X-ray is. ![]() Read this post for my experience at the French gynecologist > Then I followed her to the X-ray machine which involved a short walk parading topless in front of her male colleagues who were luckily too busy to notice the prude American shuffling along with her hands over her chest. The doctor wasn’t ogling me or anything but there was no privacy. I wasn’t given a gown or anything to cover up with. I was escorted to a room, told to disrobe right in front of her and then told again to remove my bra as well with her standing right there. Naked in front of the doctor seems to be the norm. And then escort you to an empty room wherever the X-ray is being taken.īut not so in France. Then the tech would come back and knock to see if you’re ready. In the U.S., a simple X-ray would involve going into a room with a tech, being told to take off your top when the tech is out of the room and changing into a gown. ![]() You see, upon arriving in France, all newbies have to have a medical examination including a chest X-ray to check for TB before being issued a permanent residency card. First medical nudity experience in France appointment at the physical therapist for a persistent knot in my back along with a few other issues (it’s totally cheap to go, so why not) and learned right away that it’s best to wear a loose shirt that gives him easy access to my back if I don’t want to strip down up top.īut before we get to today’s little embarrassment (for me, not him) about medical nudity, I have to take you back to my first chest X-ray in France where I got my first taste of how things are done at the doctor in France. ![]()
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