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I know: the trend of patient's eroding trust in the healthcare system is too complicated to express in this little box. In all fairness to some who post stories here, they probably do not realize there are millions of people refusing to seek needed h...

armyicurn: Do you really want to base your ethical actions on who might find out or who may be watching? That's a fairly cavalier game to play with patients humanity and dignity. People should be able to trust all caregivers with intimate situations....

"There is harm when it's misinterpreted and misguided." That is certainly a fair enough statement. However; how can the re-telling of humiliating stories not be damaging to patients, and show bad faith in the privacy of what happens between vulnerabl...

"There are far worse things in this world to be concerned with right now than this thread. No one's making you read it." Of course I could close my eyes and pretend this thread does not exist. But avoidance does not solve a problem....it hides it. ...

"Yup, we're all going to he$$. I'm guessing from your tone of distain and disapproval you won't be joining us? I'll have a beer for you." Everyone deserves respect. If you're in a position to give it to them, then you should. If you choose to exploit...

Some RN friends of mine directed me to this site and I have to agree with them: this is disturbing. The only good thing I can say is that it went unused for a few years. While there may not be direct HIPAA violations, a patient trusts and believes t...

If the female doctor thinks a chaperone is needed for male patients, then she should invest in a male staffer. This is obviously for her protection and not consideration for the patient. I would hope that he be given the choice as to the extra female...

here's where i agree... " lets not forget men have qualities which can be useful in the nursing profession also. trust me its nice to have a bit of testosterone in nursing. too much oestrogen can kill any working enviornment never mind what specialit...

Society owes itself gender equity. Any male dominated profession ( within the last few decades) has had the glaring light of equality shining in it's eyes. This disclosure presented advantages for women, but often came with outside pressure and pushi...

"There are less male nurses than female in my hospital and it's not uncommon for the entire ward to have all female nurses on the one shift. A request for a male nurse may not be possible". Yes this does describe the problem, but yet again does not d...

i commend you 'shuck'. not only for being brave enough to ask the questions that need to be asked, but for having the backbone to approach a provider for answers. i think most of us by now have read enough research that speaks to this provider's at...

good article imawonderer. we should note: "without a word, one of them - a man - leaned over ms. duffy, pulled back her blanket, and stripped her nightgown from her shoulders." so, to me, the article does begin with a bit of a gender overtone. not c...

Maybe we just need to get back to how simple the problem is. Perhaps it will inspire simpler solutions. Almost all human beings do not want and/or will refuse to expose themselves in public to the opposite gender unless it is thier choice. Simple. Ye...

"Doctors and nurses have their values, attitudes, sexualities and hangups, too. They're human." If we agree that this is true, then we would have to agree that it is impossible for them not to be aware of our values, attitudes, sexualities and hangup...

and tbrd450.....you may be right. it never occurred to me that most advocates may indeed turn out to be women. some recruiting techniques may well be in order...............point well taken!

It seems to me that we have two different kinds of patients regarding the modesty issue. 1) Those whose issues can be mitigated through trust, communication, and honest dissclosure of what is going to happen. Perhaps gender may mean less (but not di...

i agree with the theory, cul2 , that heathcare should be doing more to mitigate these circumstances. i actually see strides here to understand and perhaps move in this direction. however, when/if/until this happens, i don't see a difference in a trai...

Advocates can come from many places: volunteers such as family and/or friends all the way to paid advocates. The real problem right now is that education seems to be in the eye of the (advocate) beholder. Almost anyone can call themselves that with n...

I cringed when I read this...for so many reasons! How can male nurses be treated as a walking liability while female nurses are beyond reproach? Can anyone tell me the level of training a 'chaparone' needs to have? Must she be an RN....CNA....?

".how about cases where the blanket never goes below the hip, the gown never above nipple line and no foley needed, then what? do we still have to rearrange schedules to do surgery on a wrist or an ankle??" good question sandracvrn. the quick answer ...

So moving back to solutions: If men realized that they should and do have a right to choose the sex of the person they expose themselves to, they would do what women did....cancel appointments when the choices are not balanced. Only when the medical ...

Sori tbrd450...my first post was more sarcastic than serious. That point was....female caregivers should be offended when the male patient takes a supposedly 'innocent' proceedure and makes his preference a sexual one. Allowing/supporting that prefer...

Yes...I agree tbrd450 and here is my point: If a male prefers not to be intimately touched by a female then we hear "discrimination". If a male prefers to be intimately touched by a woman, we may call him a pig, but we still call it a preference. Not...

"I was just going to say my husband would rather a female than male place his foley. He is not homophobic in the least, just older and if someone is "going to play with his junk, he would rather it be a woman" He's a pig, what can I say??? " Play wi...

here is one of my concerns...there are so many psychological reasons why someone cares about gender. too many to mention and certainly difficult to explain here. so.." i'm not a psychiatrist, so if someone is really badly off psychologically, not muc...