Hi all,
JIC anyone of u intend to visit the said clinic for a papsmear,
at least you will be prepared, unlike me.
I had gone for a papsmear at one of the paticipating clinics aftering reading bbstuff76's post. * thanks bbstuff76*
The clinic I went to is Healthway Clinic at 201D Tampines.
What happened was as soon as I entered the room, the lady counterstaff signalled me
to remove my shorts and panty right in the open,
with the male doctor sitting back-facing me.
She did not draw any curtain or attempt to provide me any temp coverage.
So I looked at her and she repeated at least 2x 'Remove your shorts',
while standing abt an arm's length from me, and looking at me all the time some more!
That's was when I signalled her to use the towel on the examination bed as a temp tent to shield the bottom half of my body from sight
while I remove my bottom clothings.
You see,
the position I was standing is only a <u>few feet</u> away from the door I had entered
and it wasn't locked,
so anyone could have knocked and opened it in an instance!
As soon as I remove my shorts,
she let down her hands and
TA-DA ... no more shield !
Then she expected me to climb onto the bed in the buff ... omg
coz she held on to the towel
Could have pass it to me, right?
Nevermind, I gave up on good initiative already
So I reached out for the towel
covered my bottom
and climbed onto the bed in style
without 'down-there' so exposed.
Next, she told me to bend my knees and 'OPEN LEG'.
The doctor was not even ready yet,
why do I have to keep my legs open while she stood in front of bed, looking at me.
Couldn't I 'OPEN LEG' when doctor comes ????
This is my 2nd papsmear, so not as shy as the 1st time.
Otherwise, I would not have gone to that clinic
after being told it will be a male doctor doing the papsmear test.
Just a little taken aback by the lack of privacy.
Otherwise, no complain.
To be fair to her, she was not rude,
just void of empathy and respect for patient's privacy towards me.
In comparison,
the service at the Polyclinic is so much better in terms of respecting patient's privacy.
Curtain was drawn, I was left alone and sister came after I called for her.
To be fair to the doc,
I think he had no idea what was going on
since he was back-facing us
and I did not utter a word to the lady staff throughout the entire seesion.
So he heard only one voice.
He was pleasant,
and very gentle coz I almost felt nothing was going on down there.
If I had know this was going to happen,
I wont think twice even if it was FOC.
Or is what I had experienced a standard norm in private clinic?
JIC anyone of u intend to visit the said clinic for a papsmear,
at least you will be prepared, unlike me.
I had gone for a papsmear at one of the paticipating clinics aftering reading bbstuff76's post. * thanks bbstuff76*
The clinic I went to is Healthway Clinic at 201D Tampines.
What happened was as soon as I entered the room, the lady counterstaff signalled me
to remove my shorts and panty right in the open,
with the male doctor sitting back-facing me.
She did not draw any curtain or attempt to provide me any temp coverage.
So I looked at her and she repeated at least 2x 'Remove your shorts',
while standing abt an arm's length from me, and looking at me all the time some more!
That's was when I signalled her to use the towel on the examination bed as a temp tent to shield the bottom half of my body from sight
while I remove my bottom clothings.
You see,
the position I was standing is only a <u>few feet</u> away from the door I had entered
and it wasn't locked,
so anyone could have knocked and opened it in an instance!
As soon as I remove my shorts,
she let down her hands and
TA-DA ... no more shield !
Then she expected me to climb onto the bed in the buff ... omg
coz she held on to the towel
Could have pass it to me, right?
Nevermind, I gave up on good initiative already
So I reached out for the towel
covered my bottom
and climbed onto the bed in style
without 'down-there' so exposed.
Next, she told me to bend my knees and 'OPEN LEG'.
The doctor was not even ready yet,
why do I have to keep my legs open while she stood in front of bed, looking at me.
Couldn't I 'OPEN LEG' when doctor comes ????
This is my 2nd papsmear, so not as shy as the 1st time.
Otherwise, I would not have gone to that clinic
after being told it will be a male doctor doing the papsmear test.
Just a little taken aback by the lack of privacy.
Otherwise, no complain.
To be fair to her, she was not rude,
just void of empathy and respect for patient's privacy towards me.
In comparison,
the service at the Polyclinic is so much better in terms of respecting patient's privacy.
Curtain was drawn, I was left alone and sister came after I called for her.
To be fair to the doc,
I think he had no idea what was going on
since he was back-facing us
and I did not utter a word to the lady staff throughout the entire seesion.
So he heard only one voice.
He was pleasant,
and very gentle coz I almost felt nothing was going on down there.
If I had know this was going to happen,
I wont think twice even if it was FOC.
Or is what I had experienced a standard norm in private clinic?
