I've written about this before. I started work for a financial institution years ago that had its own medical department--I guess it was self-insuring. I don't remember, and I only had that job a couple of years. Anyway, passing a physical was necessary before they'd formally offer the job. I was 23 at the time.
I showed up at the appointed time. A nurse in a starched uniform took my blood pressure and temperature, then said "You pass! There's no one here today to give you a physical." So I left, thrilled to have avoided that.
About a year later, I took a friend out to lunch for her birthday, and we drank sake. I was in a great mood when I got back to the office. But there was a note: Call medical. So I called, and they said something about a well employee blood pressure check and that I should go right to them. I did, and a nurse greeted me, asked me to roll up my sleeve and she put on the cuff and took my blood pressure. She looked worried so I asked her what the problem was. "Your heartbeat's irregular." I told I knew about it, that it's been like that since I was a kid and cardiologists dismissed it and said I'd grow out of it. She wouldn't hear it, and gave me a slip to get my ECG taken. I couldn't believe they had a tech on the floor.
I went to the tech, took off my shirt, he put the electrodes, did the ECG. I put my shirt back on, thanked him and made to go back to work. "Not yet," he said. "Take this to the doctor in room XXX. " I begged off, he said they just have to make sure it's nothing.
I walk down the hall, knock an enter a doctor's panelled office. It's an older man, I'd say in his 60s. He motions to the neighboring exam room and tells me to take off my shirt. I'm sitting on the table shivering a little. He comes over looking at a chart. "We never did a physical on you. I'll do one now." I tried to beg off, and he said he already alerted my boss. "You'll have to get ready." I must have looked puzzled and he said, "I forgot that you've never had a physical here. Take the rest of your clothes off, young man, and get back on the table." Everything? I asked. Yes, he replied, he needed to examine me in my birthday suit.,
With him watching, I took my pants, shoes, socks and underwear off. He said I was in good shape. He went through all the usual stuff with the steth, etc. Felt around my abdomen. Then, of course, the cough test while I stood. Felt my balls, then slipped my foreskin back and forth a couple of times. I thought at that point was done and started to go over to get my clothes back on. "One more thing, we'll check your prostate. Leave your clothes and bend over the table." I tried to beg off again, but he insisted. Is this necessary and he assured me it was, especially if I was sexually active. So I bent over, he looked back there, make me arch my back more and then wham, he went in without warning. He felt around for awhile and I got an erection and I think dripped some. He pulled out, I got up, and he smiled. "All good, you can get dressed now."