KeepSmiling
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Having reconsidered this there would be one another sensible reason for this request and that would be if the patient was Ahem well endowed, lots of breast tissue can muffle the sounds and being able to watch the bosom/ rib cage move can assist in respiratory counting.
Thanks for your responses. if nothing else i hope this post lets young girls know that they can stand up to pervy doctors.
I have made a formal complaint to the hospital, as that is what is advised online in the UK, from which i had a meeting with the hospital. I have just received the summary of the meeting and it has come back as a personal attack on my character. I have also been told that the doctor in question is highly respected and that no other complaints have been made against him.
Thanks again xx
I think this is outrageous; no diabetic consultant has ever listened to my heart. Unless very specific reasons were given what possible clinical need is there for the procedure in the first place (is he a cardiologist?) and certainly no need for you to strip.
This response from the hospital is frankly shocking; to attack people who are raising issues is moronic.
How can hospitals improve their processes and flag unacceptable behaviour if every complaint is met like this?
Take this on and take it as high as you can; a letter to your MP and your local news paper might be useful in addition to the formal complaint procedure.
Who cares whether the doctor is 'respectable'? That's an idiotic thing to say! The implication is that they mean that they'd take this seriously if it were one of their dodgy doctors but not this one... I suppose though that's the last time that they can use their other line about no-one else complaining.
Good luck; you really don't have to put up with this stuff from anyone, least of all someone in with a specific legal duty of care towards you.
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Dillinger
Hahaha....thank you so much, really made me laugh. getting a little scared about poking a bear and needed that, thanksI agree, it does seem unusual that you'd need to remove your bra just for the doctor to listen to your heartbeat. Just checked with my wife and she said that she's never had to do that just for the doc to listen with a stethoscope. There may be some other reason that we don't know about, but to be honest it does sound a bit pervy.
BTW. The doctor didn't look anything like this did he? Sorry, I know I shouldn't be making jokes.
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Thanks for your post, all helps remind me i'm doing the right thing.Some years ago, before we had the right to access our records, it was said that some doctors would make all sort of sarcastic and unseemly notes about us in semi-code, knowing that they would never be seen, or at least only by other members of the club. One I have heard about is "TUBE", or "totally unnecessary breast examination". Maybe not true, but there's no smoke without fire and people don't change.
Sally
Thanks for your post.I have only ever had to remove my bra for surgery or an ECG or scan. For an examination with a stethoscope I have always kept my bra on and sometimes T-shirt too.
That makes sense, that the doctor might need to see the rib cage moving. But, what he should have done was explain that, and offer a chaperone. When I've been in this situation, the doctor usually goes to great lengths to sort of apologise for having to do something like this, so I'm not left wondering if it was necessary or not.Having reconsidered this there would be one another sensible reason for this request and that would be if the patient was Ahem well endowed, lots of breast tissue can muffle the sounds and being able to watch the bosom/ rib cage move can assist in respiratory counting.
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