Why I would prefer open group exams for younger patients over private individual ones

1. They're educational, promote a positive and healthy body image, and they build a sense of camaraderie with one's peers. You also have something of a support system.

2. They're less tedious and boring. At least you have other folks to talk to besides the doc.

3. In the case of the boys and young men, it satisfies their natural urge to show off both to each other and any interested females present.

4. Examinees feel less vulnerable and alone.

That's my personal view. What are you guys' feelings and insights on this?

It was also embarrassing to have a group physical examination at school or for sports, summer camp or to check fitness for military service but I share your opinion, it was not so bad because you were in a group with equality in undressing between all the boys or young men. You saw them undressed like you were and like they saw you. It was different of the feeling at an examination where you were alone in front of a doctor.

In some situations for instance when you were stark naked in front of members of the draft board commission, It would have been been worst and still more impressive if we had been examined each one alone in the room, may be it was the same at school examinations each year, we stayed a more long time undressed in briefs as a group but it was equal and certainly not so much embarrassing than to to be alone to undress

I was a kid in the 1970s and a teenager in the 1980s and my school, at that time, did pretty thorough, detailed group physicals. I still think about them to this day. I also remember that by the last couple of years of high school there had been some controversy with some parents objecting to the physicals or the open undressing, and there started to be some (not always successful) attempts to placate them with compromises.

It was rather surprising that parents were concerned by the way the physicals were performed in group at your high school ? generally they did not want to complain about the lack of privacy of their boys during group physicals considering that the school authorities wanted much than everybody else what was the best and the most efficient ? they laughed about it and said that you might get over it !

I don't remember how your annual high school physicals were performed at high school, if you were naked for a long time and exposed naked to a lot of persons ? if some parents were present as it could be sometimes or only boys students, Pe teachers and coaches and boys students and of course the medic persons ? Why was it some controversy about your school physicals was it mothers or fathers who objected to the way they were conducted ? was it discussed at the school board ? Was it a discussion between those who wanted the maintain of old traditions as regards the physicals and those who wanted changements, what were the arguments of each camp if you know them ?

Why do you say that it was not very successful, what were the changes and what did not change ?

To win time about details you can give us the link to find a detailed relation of your physicals at high school