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Lee Ann
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Sorry, I find the thought of pulling one's knickers down at the dentist's deeply disturbing . Has anyone else here tried to picture the scene with their own dentist ? Even with a modesty sheet the idea seems outrageous.
So I take it then that there are no emergency pharmacy rotas in the U.S. like there are in the UK and the rest of Europe?
In some big cities, there is one pharmacy that operates round the clock, but it may be an hour's drive on the other side of town.
When you live in a smaller community such as we do, that only has one or two pharmacies, they usually close the pharmacy counter at 6PM or sometimes 8 PM even if the rest of the store is open till 9, and there's nothing available till the next morning. It could be a considerable drive to a city big enough that would have a 24 hour pharmacy. Even the pharmacies attached to hospitals close early in the evening.
Even in a regular doctor's office in the US, they never use modesty sheets for giving shots in the hips. I have never heard of that being done, and certainly none of the doctors I have ever attended offered them for getting a shot. Those are only handed out when a patient is completely undressed for an examination.
Apparently it's more of an issue to people in the UK then? I asked all three of my daughters (11, 15, 18) and they say they don't see their bottoms as being private areas that shouldn't be seen by others. It may be a thing with the younger generation where that has changed from how it used to be, I don't know. But it doesn't bother me to get shots in the hip and never has bothered me for a medical professional like a doctor or nurse even to see me totally naked.