Remember nurses/physicians/doctors how we look naked or our vagina/penis looks like?

Real exam, are the medical workers able to remember if something embarrassing happened with you in the last exam?

Maybe my pelvic pain physican therapist (sorry dont know the english word), she did vaginal ultrasound and rectal digital exam and asnwered tons of questions about my pelvic pain. I think I got a little bit around and wet (i am into cfnf). Is she able to remember this when I meet her the next time?

Or talk about men: Lets say a male patient got a boner while a chaperone was present. maybe the doctor sees that 10x a day, but what about the younger medical assistant/nurse? will she remember oh wait this guy got erected? will she notice how long his penis was?

I dont trust. sometimes I dont believe that standard "dont worry we see that 20x a day"? or "for us its like bread at the bakers". really`? wehat do you think? its very embarrassing when some of them remember the wetness/the eretion?

I think the embarrassment and the deep meaning of the situation is almost always about 10-100x greater in the mind of the embarrassed one, especially in medicine.

Almost everyone who goes to the doctor is at least a little embarrassed, and arousal isn’t disconnected from that so I’d imagine … it happens. Even if rare, they shrug it off.

Of course, if you draw attention to it, apologize, or try to hide it, then you’ll stick out a little more.

It’s like anything - people who do that sort of thing every day for work don’t think much of it, or it’s a short lunchtime anecdote “I had this one patient who …” and then it’s gone.

-TYD

I remember having a physical with a doctor the first time and when it came time to check for hernias, I wasn't entirely soft when I pulled my underwear down for a brief handling of penis, testicles, and hernia. The following year when he asked me for a quick exam, I was flaccid and while he was checking testicles and hernia he asked if I was having any ED related issues.

He probably didn't remember or make any notes about me being erect from the previous exam, but probably was just asking about if I was having any issues since I wasn't in any erect state in the moment.

Having done many exams as a Navy Corpsman, I can tell you that your professional blinders slide into place, and it is just another day at the office, or at worst it's a "I had this one patient ..." antidote quickly forgotten.

Thanks for answers, I think 1:1 as you told, cant imagine that we stay in their mind, after a long day.

I'm a critical care nurse in a teaching hospital. We have what we call "frequent fliers," usually they are "poly substance abusers," or patients with heart, renal or lung failure... and often have several of those. For instance, i frequently have a patient with "hypoxia r/t acute exacerbation of chronic congestive heart failure (CHF) and COPD." I've also had patients with prolapsed rectums that i had to replace digitally. i'm more likely to remember their creatinine or potassium labs if they were renal patients, or how much we diuresed, at what dose and what diuretic we used if they are CHF exacerbation... the list is long and complex of life threatening issues we deal with. Them having HIV or herpes is almost a non issue comparatively.

But this is in a critical care setting, not a doctor's office with a non emergent visit. If they present at the doctors office with an emergency, an ambulance is called and we see them at the hospital if they have, say, a gerbil lodged in their rectum.

Year (and years) ago, when I went for my first full body exam at the dermatologist, I had an unfortunate erection during the genital exam. The scribe/medical assistant was instrumental in helping me "regain my composure" before the dermatologist came back in to do a scraping for a sample in my pubic area maybe a half inch above my shaft.

I was their last appointment of the day on a Friday.

Two days later at a friend's Super Bowl party (where I didn't know more than maybe 2 of the 30 people there), one of my friends neighbors comes up to me to make small talk - turns out it was the scribe/medical assistant. She definitely remembered me. Chances are, if it had been a week later, she probably wouldn't have remembered.

Prior to being circumcised two nurses attempted to catheterize me and had difficulty because of the phimosis and the repeated failed attempts made things more swollen and painful. I went back to the ER a few months later for something unrelated and one of the nurses from the prior visit was assigned again to me and she said she recalled seeing me the last time and asked if things were "all better down there" during the course of getting me ready for the ER doctor, and when I said yes everything ended up all good she said that's great I was afraid we made things worse for you because it was very inflamed before you went up for surgery.