Can any Doctors or Nurses from Asia Share their Rectal Temperature Practices?

I read on some local forums in Hong Kong that a girl who was still at secondary school that her doctor and parents still take her temperature rectally and she hated the feeling afterwards because the doctor would never wipe off the vaseline properly.

This doesn't surprise me because there are a lot of really old doctors in Hong Kong who have not changed any part of their clinic in the last 40 years..... and many parents are still quite traditional and use the same methods of taking temperature that their parents used.

Can any doctors or nurses in Asia share whether they still take patients' temperature rectally and how the patients react?

Not disagreeing with you but in my four years in Asia, the preferred way was under the arm.

My Girlfriend's friend from work was in Asia before this past year and she was a nurse there and told me most the times they took it under the arm and usually handed it to the patient and they did it themselves.

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population. It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area. There are 48 separate countries in Asia with a population of 4.561 billion people.

I'd wager that there may be as many as 3 different ways Asians take temperatures.

Actually Asia is a big continent and all the countries are really different... Different languages, culture, religion and practices...

It’s kind of disappointing to think that so many of those attractive women take their temperature under their arm, or with a scanner, when historically rectal temperatures were the norm in many European countries, at least until recently. I’ve always wondered if the rectal method was passed down to current generations, or if it stopped entirely.