Why don't hospital gowns have a back to them?

So they can easily take it off if something goes wrong.

generally people are lying on there back so they can easily pull the whole thing off if they need access to another part of your body like your heart. Much easier than cutting clothes.

It is a very good question but has been answered by a lot practical reasons. I always thought it was so the nurses could use your *** as a bottle opener. I once had a barium meal scan and they gave me a gown and I was walking around waiting for it and could hear a nurse say that reminds me must fix the crack in my ceiling lol. I was mortified as you can imagine.

So that they can put them on a patient who is in a reclining position as in bed, or in a situation when the patient is unconscious and not able to move to help with the change of clothes.

Not to be too morbid, but I've heard that the clothes and suits that they put on dead people when they lay them out in a coffin are also split up the back for the same reason.

some patients can't raise their arms above their heads so it would be impossible to put them on and take them off if they didn't have "ties" at the back. Not sure why the 2 sides don't meet? Guess they do on skinny people

I wish I knew P!! Last week I had to have a back X-ray, had to put one of these monstrosities on and then walk back through the waiting room to be x-rayed. I would have died of embarrassment if I hadn't been lucky enough to have worn my coat to the appointment and so put that on over the offending garment!!

so the rest of the hospital staff can have a laugh at your expense. They work long hours and need cheering up from time to time

Bad design

Because usually the patient is lying on their back and is easier to just put it on the top.

Where would be the fun in that?

lt gives you a bit of entertainment when your sat around waiting, that's as long as it's not me flashing my bottom!!!

I've always wondered that too, but maybe because they are easy to put on and take off.