Clothes up,pull off,remove....or whatever!
The importance of having patients remove their street clothes and wear some sort of loose gown for physical examination is being ignored by most medical institutions in the third world countries.I can say about this country where i am in right now, that it is not something anyone ever heard of. Take your clothes off for your doctor? NO Sir! Or Ma'am!
But if you are a doctor, you will know how difficult it is for example, to auscultate (listen) to one's lungs & heart with tight fitting clothing on.Winter makes it worse because every patient comes with layers and layers of clothing on,and i will be asking several times to take up, pull off or something like that for each layer i encounter with.This becomes more or so a "struggle" on my part while i try to auscultate huge female patient's with pandulous breasts on a very narrow examining table.I guess examining tables were made with europeans size and built kept in mind.I usually end up fumbling and struggling to auscultate the apex of the heart with the constricting clothes half way up which won't go up just a few more inches so the patient's breast won't be blocking that exact spot i want to put my steth on.
I believe that IGMH and goverment hospitals in Maldives should start keeping gowns in the examining rooms, so doctors can provide patients with gowns when the need to be completely free of street clothes arise when the doctor and patient comes to an agreement to do so.
But if you are a doctor, you will know how difficult it is for example, to auscultate (listen) to one's lungs & heart with tight fitting clothing on.Winter makes it worse because every patient comes with layers and layers of clothing on,and i will be asking several times to take up, pull off or something like that for each layer i encounter with.This becomes more or so a "struggle" on my part while i try to auscultate huge female patient's with pandulous breasts on a very narrow examining table.I guess examining tables were made with europeans size and built kept in mind.I usually end up fumbling and struggling to auscultate the apex of the heart with the constricting clothes half way up which won't go up just a few more inches so the patient's breast won't be blocking that exact spot i want to put my steth on.
I believe that IGMH and goverment hospitals in Maldives should start keeping gowns in the examining rooms, so doctors can provide patients with gowns when the need to be completely free of street clothes arise when the doctor and patient comes to an agreement to do so.
posted by Dancing in the Rain at 7:23 PM
3 Comments:
That would become a problem with all the haabies around. Good idea though.
In the Country I live (Mexico), wich is a third world country, people remove their clothes without hesitate.
Not every developing country have to deal with this issue.
hehe i can literally see u trying to find your way thru the layers of clothing to reach their ample bodies *lolz*
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