And getting changed into those flimsy "gowns" is sooooooooooooo unnecessary most of the time. It just makes the office assistants happy when they can order patients to do it! A while back an especially obnoxious assistant at my gastro's office made kind of a speech about
"taking everything off below the waist", which I decided to totally ignore, as it was accompanied by a barely suppressed giggle-- this from a female about
age 50! Well, several minutes later in came my gastro with a visiting medical professor trailing close behind. Ha! I had figured out that one-- because my gastro can do a neat exam, clothes on patient or not. This visitor positioned himself for a real "peeping Tom" trip, so when the subject of digital exam came up, I calmly asked the gastro if it was really necessary. Gastro equally calmly looked at my record, commented that I had just undergone c-scope a while back with good report, & calmly let me off-the-hook. My feeling is that they should quit using us as guinea pigs for their research inquiries & attempts at professional advancement!!!!!!!!!!!! @#$%&*!!!!!!!!!!! / Old Hat (nearly 30 yrs with left-sided UC ... [etc.])