This is Why We Knock
Once in medical school, you will learn all sorts of reasons why doctors knock on patients' doors before entering their rooms in the hospital, although certainly common courtesy seems the most compelling to me.
Last week, I knocked my a patient's door (a mid-40's female) before entering her room, and when I did not hear a response, I wondered, "Could something be wrong?" I knocked again, paused to listen for a response, and then entered. And there she was, lying in her hospital bed with her hospital-issued gown wide open in the front, no sign of undergarments anywhere, and her boyfriend lying in the bed right next to her!
That is why we knock. Loudly.
