Did you tell the doctor that you are circumcised before he examines you?

That happened to me yesterday for the first time, the urologist asked me, while I was still dressed, what illnesses I had and he asked me if I had some genital surgery, he cited as example the foreskin (he did not use the word circumcision).

I told him in advance that I had been circumcised in childhood. It was in Europe, circumcision is not so common as in the United States for men of my age.

I was asked to list all of the surgery that I had over my life. "Tonsils, appendix" When I responded "None" the nurse looked at me asked "Weren't you circumcised?" I responded "No". She looked at me puzzled.

My new urologist asked me if I was circumcised when she started her genital exam. I’m loosely cut, so when I’m soft, it looks uncircumcised.

I didn't have to. My primary doctor saw that I was when he was doing my first annual physical exam.

The only time I told a doctor I was circumcised was during a physical with a new doctor after I had an emergency circumcision a couple months before. She examined my penis then looked at the computer right away so I knew my records hadn’t been updated. She said oh ok I thought your record said uncircumcised then she asked what led up to it.

Do medical records usually state circumcision status? Like, if I seen a new doc will it pop up on their computer that I pack a turtle neck?

Lex: Medical records generally list all surgeries done, so a circumcision should appear in this list. Except that, I think, many people don't consider a circumcision, especially a routine one at birth, as true surgery.

I guess it's been don't ask don't tell for me. I have never been asked and I expected they would be able to tell from looking. I'm kinda like that old joke: Boy? I walk in here tripping over my foreskin and you call me "Boy".

Do medical records usually state circumcision status? Like, if I seen a new doc will it pop up on their computer that I pack a turtle neck?

The various urologists that I had always mentioned the circumcision on the reports, except one.

My former GP, who had received a copy of some of these reports, gave me a summary of my medical condition when I changed to a new doctor. He did not mention circumcision, but he never saw my penis. I do not think it's useful to mention it 60 years later.

I got an internship for the second semester of my junior (third) year in college. I was required to have a physical before I started. The doctor was really grouchy and he has asked me to list all the surgeries I had. I replied that I had oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth, but other than that I had never had surgery. When he got to my genital exam and saw that I was circumcised, he got cross with me and said "What about this surgery?". I honestly had not considered my circumcision to be "surgery" and have no idea how my mentioning this at the start of my exam would have been useful.

I got an internship for the second semester of my junior (third) year in college. I was required to have a physical before I started. The doctor was really grouchy and he has asked me to list all the surgeries I had. I replied that I had oral surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth, but other than that I had never had surgery. When he got to my genital exam and saw that I was circumcised, he got cross with me and said "What about this surgery?". I honestly had not considered my circumcision to be "surgery" and have no idea how my mentioning this at the start of my exam would have been useful.

You were completely reasonable and honest.

Your doctor was an asshole.

I don't even have to explain why.

No, I've never mentioned circumcision status to a new doctor when I've gone in for first physical exam with them. When they get to that part of the exam they find out and usually note it in my record.

The only time I was asked was when I started to see a urologist. I've been to two and both had it on the form.

My current urologist had a space on the form for age of circumcision. He asked about me being circumcised at nine.