Comments on: Exposing Patients: Balancing Necessity and Dignity

By: movien

movien — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:31:36 +0000

The push back is patients are now seeing this as simply not respecting their modesty for the sake fo the provider not the patient. While the EMT situation may be someone different, the mind set of the patient going into this is already established. When we see people laid out naked in public places instead of covered, when we see clothes cut away and then a sheet placed over them instead of cutting away most of the clothing but doing the final removal under the sheet………

By: charger

charger — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:30:45 +0000

Abuse of the disabled, elder care abuse, abuse of the mentally ill are all subjects that have history in medical literature. The sad truth is that deviants gravitate to medicine because of patient vulnerability.

By: marjorie starr

marjorie starr — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:39:10 +0000

Considerations of the patient are paramount. Surviving medical sexual abuse in a hospital changes the way you see the world. Rape victims and those subjected to cruel and degrading medical practices see their world differently. Suppose you had to make a choice…your mental health or your physical health.

Suppose your life experience was so bad that you decided you’d rather be dead than treated by opposite gender care against your will. What if your initial experience left you humiliated, traumatized and you spent thirty years just trying to make sense of what was done to you in what you thought was a trusting safe environment.

Additionally, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 against disrimmination in the work place gave the medical community what they thought permission to force opposite gender care on patients.
Even though the law provides that, for example, a restroom attendant should be the same gender as the patrons of that restroom.

Traumatized patients that now need healthcare feel that opposite gender care that is against their will is just another sexual assault.

By: alan

alan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:22:48 +0000

I think a lot of the problem has come from the natural tendency of providers not just EMT’s to expand the rights that were given them. There used to me more effort in protecting modesty from male orderlies for intimate care in hospitals to more pajama type clothing. As healthcare evolved they started pushing the envelope of what was acceptable. What was once done only out of nesecity becomes SOP. The push back is patients are now seeing this as simply not respecting their modesty for the sake fo the provider not the patient. While the EMT situation may be someone different, the mind set of the patient going into this is already established. When we see people laid out naked in public places instead of covered, when we see clothes cut away and then a sheet placed over them instead of cutting away most of the clothing but doing the final removal under the sheet………what else are we to take away from it. I already know what some are going to reply which is more important your life or your modesty…as if they by nature are mutually exclusive…they are not. Let me ask this, if this was your mother or father, wour wife or husband, your child….would there be any more consideration…if it was you laying naked infront of people you know….would it look different