Hospital Gowns

[TheBoys]

I m sick to death of hospital gowns.

I get x rays for chest twice a year and have changed hospital. Its either put on this gown or take your shirt off ( no metals , just plain t shirts)

This week i have a Barium fluoroscopy and it ll be the same battle

I m fed up seeing people like me degraded in front of other patients and visitors

Ever feel like the UK NHS is odd? There is no dignity in all of this. The net effect is my blood pressure rises and / or I wont have the treatment.

I do have issues due to scarring and weight.

Is this a bug bear for anyone else?

Paul

[TheBoys]

I had a private back.scan in a sit down open mri and i had surgical scrubs on, top and bottom.. Much better.

Last week picked my brother up at a new hospital near Enfield and went ballistic at the sight of several.people uncomfortable in a cramped waiting area. I got him two gowns and snapped at the coordination person there over dignity.

[jeffboy_aust]

I am with you all the way- there seems to be scant regard for the privacy or comfort of individual patients. I was scheduled to have a urology biopsy, and told to discard my clothing, and put on this so-called gown, before being told to wait in this small area, with about a dozen other patients. I was totally embarrassed to be seated opposite a woman where there was very little need for imagination. I asked to be given a private area to wait, but was refused. The distress of the situation was such that my b p went through the roof, and the specialist was unwilling to proceed. It was rescheduled but under anaesthetic, and my wife was allowed to be with me all through. On that occasion they could manage to find a private place to wait. This was in a private "modern" day surgery hospital. They also managed to find an all male team to do the biopsy.

When it comes to dignity, I must also admit that I have major reservations about female staff being around for urological procedures for guys. But that's another issue.

[TheBoys in reply to jeffboy_aust]

Thanks for that . I m not the only one. I sometimes think hospital staff do it deliberately.

I did not attend for a barium swallow fluoroscopy last week for two reasons. Firstly having to peel off when there is no clinical need as an x ray works through a simple plain t shirt. If you have got running bottoms on ..as well you should be able to just go in and out.. i was in an incident years ago in Ulster and got a bit of scarring..more noticeable now cos i ve put weight on. So am very conscious as folk look at it and ask.

The upshot of last week is my hospital relented and rebooked me for two weeks and agreed i dont need a gown

A side issue was that they didn't tell me how the process would work..i had told them.i d just been put on blood pressure meds but were gojng to inject buscopan which could have interacted with my other meds.

In many ways the NHS gives men a hard time and doesn't understand modesty at all. Though this issue of dignity is visible across the health service. It doesn't really care.

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I am sorry to hear of your issues. I have to say that I have had many procedures over the last few years an in various hospitals have never had the feelings you have. I have had nothing but sensitive treatment in NHS hospitals. In fact I have been so impressed by my treatment that I volunteer for my local Hospital Trust.

[TheBoys]

Hi..many thanks for that. It's a strange one I guess. I have a lot of deep seated issues around medical care in general which arise when I go to hospital..so I think its linked to that. I did have an issue with a Dr.. but that was around 25 years ago and only recently talked about it. It s obviously stuck with me all these years and seems to be getting worse. What a way to be.