Physical Exams in other than exam rooms

My first hernia exam was for a mandatory school sports participation physical. The school system had made arrangements with a local doctor to supply physicals to any students that wanted one for a cheaper price, so the place was packed. It took place at an old home that the doctor had converted the entire first floor into his private practice. The line of kids snaked through the office going from station to station having different parts of the exam as we went.

The final station was of course the hernia exam being conducted by the older male physician. It was in the very back of the house in a very small storage room just off of their lab (which was just the old kitchen of the home). The room was small but had a lot of windows and a door leading to the outside (which was open) and was full of filing cabinets. The doctor was sitting on a small stool in front of a window and was using the top of a filing cabinet as a desk to sign the paperwork as the kids went through. The room was dark except the light coming in from the windows and door. There was a nurse standing at the doorway from the lab into the room acting as a gate keeper, as one boy finished coughing the next boy would enter. As one was instructed to pull up their pants the other was told to lower them as the doctor signed the exam forms and would re-glove. Then the one finished would leave through the open door and the next would step over in front of the doctor with their pants bunched up around their knees.

My school fitness exams, while not medical exams, were done in the little gym/coach's office off the main gym in my school. It was really more of a big storage area but they still managed to fit 5-7 of us in their with enough room to move around.

We had a medical room at primary school which was just another small room that was used for storage when the nurse wasn’t visiting. Was never any more than eye testing and injections in it that I can remember.

At secondary school we had a medical hut in the playground. Ironically it was beside the hut where the teachers were allowed to smoke! The windows were blacked out and boys got hernia tests in there.

When I was in high school, the sports exams were conducted back stage; they would set up a curtain around a massage table, and perform the exams there.

When Wrestling i was offen examined by Out Coach in His Office because i was a late bloomer.

When I was in Grade 9 in Junior High School all the boys were examined in the gym during a regular physical education class wearing our gym uniforms and lowering our gym shorts and jockstraps for examination of our genitals and anuses.

Oof, I had a genital exam in the corridor of the hotel, believe it or not.

I was around 7-8 y.o. and a “fancy” lady doctor front the capital came to your city. Since I needed my testicles checked for development parents arranged a meeting with her and she agreed, but didn’t even propose to do it in her hotel room. So I ended up with my undies down to knees and her palpating my balls in the corridor, kind of like a lounge section of the hotel, behind the sofa that was standing there.

When I joined the service I had my enlistment physical done at the states meps station. The station was on an old army base that had been built during the first world war and used through the second world war for training. The building the physicals were done in looked like it had been built as an administration building. When you entered the building the middle of the main floor was open with hallways and small rooms along each side of the hallways. We were put into one big group and then divided up into small groups and sent down certain hallways to different rooms that had been numbered. And then from room to room for each part of the physical. Some of the rooms had windows along the outside wall, there was no proper medical equipment in any of the rooms. There were usually two or three people in uniform in each room sitting behind desks and then a few others in uniforms conducting the exams. The ones sitting behind the desks writing down your information as you were being examined, moving from one uniformed person to the next until you were back out in the hallway. Once everyone in your group was done and in the hallway you moved to the next room in your small group went through it again getting a different body part examined. The last part of the exam we were put back into one big group and then brought into a larger room that had nothing in it. A few minutes after we were in the room the uniformed guy that had brought us into the room told us to strip to our underwear, and then he left leaving us standing around in our underwear, a few minutes later an older gentleman entered the room wearing a white coat, he had a female in a nurses uniform following him. He told us to form a line shoulder to shoulder, that he was going to give us genital exams and then rectal exams. And that his nurse was going to be following with him taking down the information as he went. He then explained what we were supposed to do and started at left end of the line. This is the only time in my life that I have been examined in a place other than a clinic or medical facility. The only thing we ever had done at school was vaccinations.

As a child or teenager, my parents rarely took me to the doctor, only if I was sick or for checkups. And it was always in the examination room.

If I was too sick to go, my parents would call a doctor who would come to the house.

As an adult? Always in the doctor's examination room, except for a few occasions (too sick) when I had a doctor come to the house.

Sports physicals were always in the locker room.

When I was in Grade 9 in Junior High School all the boys were examined in the gym during a regular physical education class wearing our gym uniforms and lowering our gym shorts and jockstraps for examination of our genitals and anuses.

@gboy Were these exams done in partitioned or curtained areas or just out in the open in the gym?

@dahardy9 The exam was done in the open gym as we lined up in rows. We could all see the boys ahead of us being examined although we mostly saw their rear ends.

Our sports physicals in high school were done in the school's office. We gathered in the lobby and then went from one private office or room to the next in an assembly line fashion.

DLanders..... so what was the procedure? Did you just meet in the lobby or did you undress there, etc. or undress once in the office. Could others see into the lobby area?

Our school sports physicals were sometimes at a nearby hospital but, when they were not and when the staff came to our school, exam stations would be set up spread across the gym, the stage of the multipurpose area, and then only part of it in the actual school health office.

When the school doctor came, sometimes exams were in the staff room

In my own bedroom, home call. Home calls were still common at the time.

As @Jacana . Home exams by our family doc at the bedroom or living room.