Once my son had fifths disease and presented with the full rash, evidently very uncommon. At the hospital here, they stripped him down and brought in all the student docotrs to look at him. Hen one of the femal doctors actually lifted his whizzer to take a look at how far the rash had spread, he whacked her hand and snapped, "Ask first, lady. Have you no shame!?" He was seven at the time.

I had nothing against them letting folks look at the rash with his underwear on, but before i knew it, full liberties were being taken "in the name of science". At the time, My swedish was not good, and i felt they took advantage of that to run over me as a parent. I was so proud of him that he felt he could stand up to a room of adults and draw the line, and I handed him his underwear and said, "I think that's enough."

They acted as if we were being hysterical, above all the women, who acted as if because they were women, it shouln't have been a problem. But my son didn't want to be touched by strangers, even though he was able to understand that they wanted to see what the rashes looked like. In general, the lack of empathy that gets trained into the medical profession is frightening.! HUggs all.