Grandmothers frequently warn about not wearing torn underwear – "Don't wear underwear with holes, as you never know when you might be in an accident and have to go to hospital. And how would you feel if you were wearing underwear that had passed its throw-away date?"

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Frankly, my feelings on the matter is if you are ill enough to warrant the type of medical attention that requires the removal of your underwear, I would hope the medical staff would pay more attention to my broken limbs, injured heart or whatever, than to the state of my undergarments.

But just to make you paranoid, a friend who worked as a trauma doctor, said that nurses and doctors do actually sometimes notice underwear.

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