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Excellent topic! As a primary-care provider, there was a time when I only needed my nurse to chaperone during examination of females whose "private areas" needed to be exposed. Nowadays, I have to figure out how much "private area" is going to be displayed when I lift a shirt/blouse to listen to lung breath sounds and most of the time, I call my nurse in as a chaperone and document the fact that she was present during the examination. Adolescent and young adult women come to the clinic wearing only enough clothing to get them through the doors. It is uncomfortable and just plain demeaning to me, a 66 year old PA with more than 30 years of practice to have the tattoos on the lower halves of buttocks displayed when I lift the back of a blouse/shirt to listen to the lungs. Same for "cleavage"; some of these female children wear so little to cover their "frontal area" that I need a chaperone just to listen to their heart sounds with their clothing on - what little of it there is. There is, potentially, a fine line between appropriate and inappropriate behavior in a medical setting; for a young woman to dress such that she displays herself is her choice but I am faced with providing an examination which does not overstep the bounds of decency in just "being able" to view the exposed body-surface. Men of any age who "show arse" are not pretty creatures; nobody, just nobody wants to see their cracks/butts. "Butt ugly" is a valid term for mens' butts.

This "baseball cap turned backwards" just drives me nuts! WTF, O? Remember the days of wearing "trousers" backwards? Kids with their britches "down" and showing their boxers - again, WTF, O? "Statement!" Ok, here's my statement; "Stupid is as stupid does" and if some of these folks figure out how to shoot while looking into the muzzle, that may help the gene pool.

In my clinic, I require that all males (and the occasional female hat wearer) remove their "head gear" before I will examine them. Don't want to take their hat off? Their appointment with me is ended. What is the deal with men wearing hats indoors? Gonna get a fluorescent lamp burn? They sit at a table/in a booth with their wives and wear their hats while eating, etc., just looks careless, ignorant and maybe just stupid. I was raised to remove my hat indoors and in the presence of a lady. In the service, hats were worn indoors only when a person was "under arms"; loved that military custom - "remove your hat mister or show me your authorized sidearm."