Re: multiple annual physical exams

Decades after I had them, they have raised the question of why I would have a physical exam every Spring with my brother, my parents both teachers, off, and away from home for the Summers, returning at the start of the school year, and then, in fourth, or fifth grade, and ahead of the wrestling season, I would have another exam? In the former, the end of the alphabet last name boys, about nine of us, were sent together to the nurse's office, told to go to shared cubicles, undress to underwear only. Each of us, in alphabetical order, were then taken by the nurse to a room with a doctor, and an exam table. We were given brief exams, from heights, weights, to lying back on the table, the waistband of our briefs pulled back.

Ahead of wrestling season, boys on the team were given passes to the nurse's office. We supplied urine samples, then stood, dressed, outside a room. One by one, we went into the room. The seated doctor told us to lift our shirts so he could listen to hearts, and lungs, then drop pants, and underwear for hernia checks. The older boys would then get as far as stuffing shirts into pants, and go out another door, zipping up, buckling pants in the nurse's open office, next to the waiting boys.

But why? Annual physical exams would have forms for school. The extra exam happened only once. The sports exam was minimal at best. Did anyone else have multiple exams in one year?

I don't have multiple annual physicals done. But I do have multiple physicals done each year by two different doctors. I get my annual done after the first of the year by one doctor, and then a few months later I get a physical done for my job by another doctor. I have been doing this for a little over ten years now. It helps to keep my personal medical information mine. It keeps things simplified and seperated.

My physicals aren't annual since I go every six months. I have to go twice a year cause of my blood pressure

I might have been unclear here. There have been posts about back to school physicals, perhaps the school system sent out a form with vaccines? There have been posts here about pre-participation sports physicals. I've posted above about my having had both in the same year, and wondered if those who had pre-participation sports physicals had already had back to school, or another physical, what went on in one being different than the other?

I'm not entirely sure I understand correctly, but there were two years when I had to undergo two school physicals, and one of them wasn't nearly as thorough.

If your annual is done by your regular doctor, often sports organizations want their own doctor to do it, as they know exactly what is required. Also, for something like wrestling, a hernia check is a must. One is a general exam, the other is more targeted.

Yes it was a different form for routine yearly school exams mandatory for each boy student and for tose who wanted to practice more sports in a team, this was not same day nor with same doctor and somrtimes in an other community than the nurse's office of school, or in the gym of the school facility

My sports physicals were always separate from any other physical my parents would take me to.