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blackrebel
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 Posted - 11/25/2008 : 1:41:01 PM
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I mentor patients at a surgery center. After one my my patients had her surgery, she was in intensive care. While there, she is wearing a very loose fitting gown for easy access to tubes and what-not.
While I was visting her top over a 10 minute period had actually slipped off and she was more topless then less. I didnt say a word and we continued chatting. She started giggling and apologized that she had 'fallen out' and I told her that I was pretty much not paying attention. She joked that I see more topless women that way, and i informed her that I was a nudist and seeing an unclad body is normal for me so I didnt really think about it, forgetting that I am in a hospital as a volunteer for the hospital not as a medical staff person. This being the case I was on shaky ground as a volunteer and standards.
During the chat she came out again and this time a nurse came in during rounds and gave me a stern look at the situation. The patient laughed and told her to ease up and and told her that they were only breasts and asked the nurse why she was upset. That nurse didnt answer and we hope that this was the end of the situation.
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pilot
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Posted - 11/25/2008 : 11:12:42 PM
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From a clinical perspective...
Medical care--and especially surgical care--requires that we professionals act in ways that constitute criminal acts if performed in a different context. We must touch patients in places that are considered intimate. In surgery, we cut and sew which are always (at some level) disfiguring and painful.
The rituals of medical care are designed to identify the interaction than ordinary social events (nude or otherwise).
As an aside, it is a standard recommendation that when male medical personnel must touch, examine or treat a female patient in locations not ordinarily exposed that a female chaperone be present. The cost of misperception is considered too great to chance.
How we behave in private or in a designated social situation is one thing. The expected code of conduct in a clinical environment is fairly regimented to protect both clinician and patient.
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balataf
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Posted - 11/26/2008 : 02:06:21 AM
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When I was hospitalized in 2002 for a toe amputation, I found the gown too constricting and really awkward, so I just used a sheet toga-fashion or as a loincloth as long as I was staying within my own room. I got a few professional comments, but nothing important happened around it.
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cony
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Posted - 11/26/2008 : 07:17:16 AM
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I had the same (?) loose fitting gown before (and after) I had surgery for a broken thigh. The gown covered much less than it covered  , and since I was in a mixed ward this was interesting  .
Cony 
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blackrebel
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Posted - 11/26/2008 : 08:21:38 AM
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Exactly what I thought after the fact. The patients tend to like me because I am not a professional. I am a patient who went through what they went through. They see me as family or as a friend. But, I have to remember that I am (unofficially) hospital staff even thought I am not on payroll. I know how to draw the line. It's just that different people have different lines.
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Originally posted by pilot
From a clinical perspective...
Medical care--and especially surgical care--requires that we professionals act in ways that constitute criminal acts if performed in a different context. We must touch patients in places that are considered intimate. In surgery, we cut and sew which are always (at some level) disfiguring and painful.
The rituals of medical care are designed to identify the interaction than ordinary social events (nude or otherwise).
As an aside, it is a standard recommendation that when male medical personnel must touch, examine or treat a female patient in locations not ordinarily exposed that a female chaperone be present. The cost of misperception is considered too great to chance.
How we behave in private or in a designated social situation is one thing. The expected code of conduct in a clinical environment is fairly regimented to protect both clinician and patient.
No shame
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Plumb Nude
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Posted - 11/26/2008 : 10:11:47 AM
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After having knee surgery while still in recovery, three of the nurses had stoped by to check on me. Somehow my whole right side form sholder to toes had become uncovered. One made a remark about how my tan was so even. Another one ask if I went to a tanning bed. I had just got back from vacation the week before so I told them that the tan was from a week on the beach. They all just said OH and they liked my tan and then left.I'm not sure that they knew how to responde to that statement. O well there are nudist among us.
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