hiatal hernia : hitting the head on the nail

Medicine; With YOUR Dignity In Mind

When in the E.R., O.R. and exam rooms, is it too difficult to cover a man’s pride or a woman’s dignity?

Less than a second’s effort isn’t worth a touch of human kindheartedness?

Whether seeing the patient’s naked body affects the medical team is not the issue, I’ve been told they (the medical teams) don’t see the patient that way (nude)… the patient does!

(By the way, I’ve personally over heard nurses and doctors discussions of sexuality… My mom was a nurse… I’ve heard the stories)

A simple cloth covering a patient’s genitals will not stop medical teams from observing that patient’s nudity, it does however leave the patient an air of dignity… conscious or not.

Other than the obvious external ailment, like an open sore or a rash… what is the necessity in X-Rated photographs of the patient’s naked body in sexually explicit positions? I don’t care that Doctors “think” no one sees the X-Rated photographs… What I want to know is, Why do they need them? What purpose do they perform? Do Doctors have to disrespect the patient, when a single in line photo of a sign stating “COLONOSCOPY” would suffice?

You can pull up tens of thousands of men and women that boisterously state that nudity and X-Rated images of their bodies, posted in publicly accessible records, is OK, and doesn’t bother them.

There are Millions that SILENTLY disagree. MILLIONS of potential patients… are avoiding all medical confrontations and disgustingly envisioned procedures, like colonoscopies, due directly to the prospect of such improper concerns for ones dignity by the medical profession. Simply corrected… by protecting the patient’s self-respect and controlling the degree of nudity.

Would you rather have 30% of the thousands or the same percentage of the millions? Paying patients! The ones with insurance! Simply stop the X-Rated, naked photographs and unnecessarily indignant exposures… you will see an improvement of your “Bottom” line. Advertise with the title of this letter!

In the exam room offer the male patient a wrap for around his waist… You don’t really NEED to visually see his genitals… and a woman can be examined for the most part with the paper robe in place. If they opt for the exposure… no problem, but for those that want their privacy… You just gained, everyone that satisfied patient knows, and they know, etc

Find, if you even care, a copy of the videotaped procedure of Katie Couric (of NBC) and see what I mean by dignifying the procedure.

She was laying on her side (not splayed like a gay w**** in heat), Covered with a blanket (not completely exposed to a room full of people), Only the necessary area exposed, then only to the doctor and assisting nurse (not the entire body with all that’s private to ones being dangling for all to gawk at), And no one was taking X-Rated pictures.

Just want to know… When a patient goes in for a Laparoscopic exam ordered by a Gastroenterologist, for GERD and a Hiatal Hernia, does an Urologist then come in to do the Colonoscopy? (Both were done in the same visit… I opted to be left unconscious). Or… does a single hospital surgeon do both procedures, and submit the findings to the appropriate specialists? ). I was OK with the procedure until I SAW the X-Rated photographs. Now I cannot bring myself to go back for a follow-up.

Telling a patient to “get over the embarrassment” just increases the delay in getting the normal man or woman to have sexually explicit procedures done… like the Colonoscopy.

It was not having that cable shoved up my r*****, it was being splayed and indignantly photographed as if a gay w****, that prompted this letter, and cost a Doctor a PAYING patient.

Terry Wilcox Anniston, AL

Comment provided April 30, 2005 at 11:04 am