Patient Modesty: Volume 82

I think that the above image and words sets the tone of the conversation regarding male physical modesty issues which form most of the conversation currently on the Patient Modesty thread.Thanks  toAlternative Press via Google Images for the graphic for this Volume.Continuing on with the Comments, here is the last one as of the time of creating this new Volume and it is by AB who professionally appears to know much of the ins and outs of the medical system. ..Maurice.At Friday, October 20, 2017 2:41:00 PM,  Anonymous said...I cannot speak knowledgeably on the distribution of genders in hired medical scribes. It is my impression both male& females are hired to be scribes. At my old medical center, in the emergency department we hired scribes to assist the ED physicians but there was no requirement they only be female. This was the only location where we allowed scribes. Nationwide I don ’t know if there is a trend toward one sex or another for scribes, I don’t think there is.Medical assistants in private practices and clinics is more sinister matter. MAs assisting as a chaperone, for example, always mean the physicians/NP/PA is also present with the chaperone/MA when the patient is naked. As such there should be ZERO reluctance to hire males to perform this duty, if medicine is gender neutral and patients have no preferences (which of course we know is not true for BOTH sexes). The “risk management” issues of a male being alone with an uncl...
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