Employment Physical

Submit to your exam!! Do as you're told.

Who are you to tell anybody to submit and do what they are told to do. Go back to Fantasyland, little djboy.

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If you want the job you do the exam...aka submit. Though I am thinking @djboy maybe thinking more of a play exam. When the topic is about actual exams.

For many years I was a commercial bus driver and because I had a commercial drivers license it required a thorough physical as well as drug and alcohol testing every 2 years and even after I went back to college in order to keep the license I had to continue to have physical exams until I reached the age where it became yearly and I gave the license up. Most of the places that contracted to do these exams used nurse practitioners that were usually female so it was often embarrassing. For awhile I lived in a state where an employer could make you give a urine sample supervised by a medical professional or a trained observer. The one time this happened it was the same nurse practitioner that did the exam. If she hadn’t looked away briefly I’m not sure I could’ve started peeing.

I have had to have a physical done once a year for the last thirty years for my job. Usually these physicals are nothing more than a glorified sport's physical.

One particular physical though about twenty years ago. The doctor just happened to be a very young doctor, I am thinking he was just of residency and was very enthusiastic.

Long story short he started out checking the nurses notes and told me my blood pressure was a little high, and he would put me on some medication, and then he continued with my physical. When he got to the hernia exam instead of just checking me for a hernia he started giving me a complete genital exam, so far this was not all that embarrassing, before he finished with the hernia exam he stopped, and looked up at me with my pants and underwear still down around my knees, and started telling me that seeing how he had put me on the blood pressure medication he wanted me to come back in a week. And then if it was working and my blood pressure was good and with in the required range, he would give me a rectal exam to check my stool for blood, and he would also check my prostate, but that he really wasn't worried about my prostate because of my age. Then when all of this was done he would give me my health card. Needless to say I needed my health card to work, so I went back a week later. And got bent over the exam table and was given a very thorough rectal examination while he checked my prostate and obtained a stool sample with his finger buried in me. This was first and only time, I have had this done for a employment physical, it was completely unexpected and embarrassing.

Decades ago, employment physicals were a really big deal at many employers. I had one that was as thorough as any physical exam I've ever had. My employer's health clinic operated practically assembly line style. While the doc herself was thorough, I had an impression that she didn't particularly like her job. Just a few years later, the company stopped doing these employee physicals. I wrote an account of my experience with the thorough exam in a Zity blog post. Check out the link, if you think you'd be interested in having a look.

https://en.zity.biz/index.php?mx=blog;ox=showpage;pg=6668

The thing I think that is stupid about Physicals for CDL's is how you can only go to certain doctors. Doctors that dont know you or your history. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense usually to me.

The thing I think that is stupid about Physicals for CDL's is how you can only go to certain doctors. Doctors that dont know you or your history. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense usually to me.

Same with flight physicals in the US. Docs must be certified by the FAA as an Aviation Medical Examiner..

One of my wife’s friends just had an employment physical yesterday. She had been trying to get a job with a particular employer for a while now, because they have better pay and benefits than her current employer, with more promotional opportunities, doing the same job she does now.

She came over last evening, shortly after her appointment. She and my wife were talking in the kitchen, having some celebratory wine to toast her new job, and I was in the living room, reading some articles online. We have an open concept house, so I could hear everything plain as day, not that they were trying to be quiet so I couldn’t hear. Anyway, “Laura” (not her real name), told my wife about her physical. Like my wife, she isn’t shy, and they tell each other everything anyway, not really caring that I could hear. For a visual, she is 36 years old, very attractive, is currently single (broke up with her girlfriend three months ago, she is bi, and has had boyfriends in the past. Never married, no kids.) She is 5 foot 8, 130ish pounds, has long, thick reddish brown hair and hazel eyes, and has a fit, trim body. She works out regularly, and has a body that reflects that. She was wearing one of her skirt suits, as she went from her job at her almost ex employer to her appointment, then a few errands before coming over. It is light gray, the material it is made from gives it a slight sheen, the blazer and skirt are tailored and snug (not tight) fitting. The skirt is a pencil style skirt, the hem about three inches above her knees, with a walking slit in the back, and she was wearing a snug fitting, shiny white silk top under her blazer, showing a hint of cleavage. She was wearing shiny suntan nylons and black high heels.

This is how Laura described her appointment. She goes to an occupational health clinic, and after checking in, had to fill out some paperwork. A nurse brought her back to provide a urine sample for the drug screen. She had to remove her blazer and leave her purse in a small locker, although she wasn’t allowed to close the stall door, the nurse didn’t watch her provide the sample, but did stand just to the side of the stall. After that was done, she was brought back to the waiting room. A different nurse called her back, and brought her down a different hallway to an exam room. It was a typical exam room with the typical exam table. After having her remove her blazer and heels for the height and weight check, and having her vitals taken, she was instructed to remove only her skirt and top, and to put on the exam gown with the opening in the back. She was relieved, as she was worried she would have to take everything off. She still wasn’t sure how thorough the physical was going to be, but the fact she could keep her bra, panties and pantyhose on was a good sign that it wouldn’t be too thorough.

Soon after she puts on the gown and has a seat on the exam table, the doctor knocks and enters. The doctor was a man, and the same nurse accompanied him, presumably to chaperone. He briefly goes over her medical history, then begins the exam by checking her eyes, ears, nose and throat, and palpates her neck, checking her lymph nodes and thyroid, Next he unties the top of the gown, and parts the back to listen to her lungs. Then he has her lower the gown to just below her breasts, fully exposing her bra, to listen to her heart. After he finished, he tells her she can pull the gown back up and he ties the top for her. Next, he has her lay back for the abdominal exam. He pulls the gown up to just below her breasts, fully exposing her abdomen. She was embarrassed that he could see her pantyhose and the panties under her pantyhose. He listens to her bowel sounds, then does a firm, thorough palpation of her abdomen, from just below her ribcage all the way down to her mons pubis. He palpated her lower abdomen over her pantyhose and panties, he didn’t slip his fingers under the waistband to feel her bare skin. He palpated right where her uterus and ovaries are located. He then felt her femoral pulses, over her pantyhose. He checked her pulses at her ankles, then pulls her exam gown back down, telling her to sit up. He checks her reflexes and has her squeeze his fingers to test her grip strength. He then has her stand up and he checks her balance by having her close her eyes, feet together, arms outstretched to her sides parallel to the floor, then tilt her head back, and has her stay that way for several seconds. Finally, he has her bend over and touch her toes while he checks her spine. She was embarrassed that he could see her pantyhose covered ass with her thong panties under her sheer to the waist pantyhose! He tells her she passed her physical, and she can get dressed.

Laura said that although she was relieved that she didn’t have to have a breast exam or pelvic exam, she kind of wishes they did because she is WAY overdue for a Pap and pelvic. My wife tells her “What the hell are you waiting for, make an appointment!” She tells my wife she knows, she had her appointment for a Pap and pelvic cancelled when the pandemic hit, and she just never rescheduled it, life just got so busy. My wife tells her you’d better call tomorrow or I will! She promised my wife she would call her doctor first thing in the morning.

Having heard all this, I wish I had been a fly on the wall of that exam room! Even though no breast or pelvic/rectal exam happened, just visualizing her with her shiny nylons, bra and panties on under the gown, still getting a pretty good physical, with her bare abdomen exposed with her shiny pantyhose and panties showing, was still exciting to think about. Now I know she will be getting a breast exam and Pap/pelvic soon as well!

The thing I think that is stupid about Physicals for CDL's is how you can only go to certain doctors. Doctors that dont know you or your history. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense usually to me.

I got my tractor trailer license in 1962 and have seen it go through many configurations until the CDL became the law of the land. I had to take the written test over again for that around 1990 and had a CDL-A until I turned 75 in 2015. My family doctor was always the one who did my physical until then. When I was 75 the renewal required THEIR doctor who wasn't even a doctor but a chiropractor. At that point I felt it was a good old boy set up and I declined. I figured at 75 I wouldn't be likely to use the CDL-A again anyway.

One of the most fun jobs was hauling mail into South Station Annex in Boston. There was a guy who came in from Springfield usually with some local cops he picked up chasing him along the way. They weren't allowed inside the mail terminal so they would be outside the gate yelling at him but ib Boston they were out of their jurisdiction anyway. The US MAIL has the supreme right of way on the highway and you don't have to stop for the police, fire, or ambulances. We did get out of the way for fire and ambulances but you definitely didn't stop for the police as being stopped like that would provide an opportunity for someone to board the truck.

I am of an age where I went through a number of pre-employment physicals.

These were required so that I was able to join the pension and life insurance scheme.

These were not optional and a requirement for employment.

The first was when I was 18. I was a little surprised as having had a number of school medicals, thought that those days were over.

The medical was conducted in a Doctor's office in the City of London. It was a normal office block with many other business companies there.

I had applied to join an insurance company, and this Doctor was used to carry out medicals for life insurance purpose, common in those days.

I still remember the name of the Doctor and I knew he came from a medical family. Age wise he was in his 60s.

I stripped to the waist and he listened to my heart and lungs, then palpitated parts of my body.

Then the big reveal when he told me to drop my trousers. I stood there naked whilst he looked me up and down.

He then slipped his fingers under my scrotum for the cough and drop test.

I can't remember whether he pulled back my foreskin, some Doctors did.

I wouldn't say I was embarrassed by the examination, it is something to get used to.

Returning to the office, my colleagues knew I had been given a medical and just smiled.

One of them I spoke to later confirmed that he had a similar experience to me.