to wonder if I'm a medical exhibitionist?

[embrassed]

I have had a lot of operations/interventions, and now have no shame.

This is very useful at the hospital where three people in succession want to see and prod my abdomen, boobs, and closely examine my scalp (as if they are looking for nits ).

Unfortunately my willingness seems to scare my GP and other medical professionals...

Should I relearn the art of bashful undressing?

I would say YANBU so long as you don't walk into the dr's with, say, a poorly child and do it!

Yanbu

I always feel a bit ridiculous getting half undressed behind a screen, then being handed a huge sheet to wrap round as you walk to the bed where there's a doctor about to look up your fanjo. I've tried to refuse the sheet before but they're quite insistent, and they rush across to pull the curtain if you start getting dressed again without pulling it across!

Think of it as altruism. As long as they draw the curtain round for privacy, don't shout "this is the worst I've ever seen" and you're not embarrassed - who cares!

I was a subject for an ultrasound scanning seminar for training health professionals - I was happy to do my little bit, for the NHS, in a side room with uterus bits projected onto screen in seminar room next-door.

Its when health professional don't respect your privacy that gets me - old hag receptionist who announced to her colleagues that I was the one who had called up asking about the morning after pill, many years ago.

I was the exhibitionist in Oman. I delivered DD at the (only) teaching hospital in the country.
all the western women were approached by the staff to ask us if we minded having medical students either take our history or examine us.

I grew up having medical students prod and poke me; over the exam period I have permanent bruises around my liver from First years having a poke.

But that's what happens when your mum teaches medicine.