Surprises at the Doctor

he asked her if she did monthly breast exams. She said she did and reminded him he had done one six months prior during her physical. We were both a little startled that he asked about her breast. Still not clear why, but he went closer to her and started helping her unbutton the front of her shirt. She assisted and then he asked her to undo her bra. She dropped the shirt off her shoulders and removed her bra. He palpated each breast as he did during her physical. He was very thorough, and then told her she could redress.

I'd think that checking the breasts for cancer (at the age I surmise your wife is) be thought quite normal and actually advisable.

I've had a couple of surprises. One time I went in for a tetanus shot. I was surprised when she led me into a private room and told me to drop my pants and bend over for the shot.

Another time I went to my MD for a travel shot. My doc asked if he minded if a female med student watched and felt I couldn't say know as knew him a long time. So they both stood behind me as I dropped my pants and bent over the table. He then showed her over a period of several minutes the anatomical landmarks to determine where to locate the needle before proceeding to give me the shot.

Another time I had contracted giant hives around my trunk. The doc had me remove all my clothes. He then called in all his staff, male and female, and had me do several 360s to show them what giant hives looked like.

@Rose75,

As the Italians say, ''Si non e vero, e bene trovato''.

In other words, I found your story very exciting, but also very hard to believe.

I'd think that checking the breasts for cancer (at the age I surmise your wife is) be thought quite normal and actually advisable.

@agracier I don't think they're surprised that their doctor might ever suggest a breast exam, but were taken by surprise that one happened unexpectedly during a visit for something else specific and unrelated.

It'd be normal and fine for a doctor to do a testicular exam on me, but it would be a surprise if they suggested it at the end of an appointment I'd arranged to look at scar tissue on my foot, for example.

Another office visit surprise. My wife had been feeling like she was getting a bladder infection over the weekend. So yesterday (Monday) I took her in to see an old family doctor that we’ve been friends with for forty years. He listened to her complaint and then asked her to go to the rest room and give him a urine sample. She leaves the exam room and goes to the rest room and I wait in the exam room alone. She gives the urine to the nurse when she’s finished and returns to the exam room to wait with me. After 20 min or so the doctor comes back in and says she does have an infection but he wants to rule out anything else that might be going on. He did the usual checking of her ears and throat. Listened to her heart and lungs. He had her lay on the table and undone the button and zipper on her pants and pushed them down past her pubic hair, and lifted her shirt up to her bra. He palpated her abdomen and lower stomach for several minutes, she was quite tinder in her lower stomach area. He told her that he wanted to do a pelvic to rule out anything else going on. This really took her by surprise, she wasn’t expecting this at all. He said I’ll step out and you can take off everything necessary to do a pelvic and smiled at her. This is a very old outdated clinic and the doors don’t shut well at all, so the doors will always stay a bit open by a couple of inches and anyone passing by can catch a glimpse inside the room. There were two different men patients in two rooms right across the hall from us with their doors open, the doctor talks load, so they could hear and most likely catch a peek of what was going on in our room. After he left she removed her shoes, pants, and panties and took a seat back on the table. The doctor steps back in the room, he must have been right outside the door. When he shuts the door, it doesn’t latch and opens back up six inches or so. So one of the guys across the hall had a very good view of what was going on. He pulls the stirrups out and helps her put her feet in them, he slips on his exam gloves as he is sitting on a stool right between her legs. He gently pushes her legs open and spreads her labia and looks up in her a little. He then puts some lubricant on his fingers and does a bi-manual on her, for this he stands back up. She is very tinder when he starts palpating her ovaries. He sits back down and pulls out a large speculum and attaches a light to it. He then lubricates the speculum and spreads her labia as he slides it in her. He looks around in her and says he believes she has some type of infection going on in her vagina as well. He removes the speculum and takes some Kleenex and wipes the lubricant off of her vagina. He says he’s going to call in a prescription for some medicine that she’s to put up inside her vagina and an antibiotic for her bladder. He leaves and I help her get redressed, she knows how much I love seeing her have a pelvic exam, and I certainly did today, especially not having a clue she would get one. It would have been much better if she had been feeling better.

At a pre-rmployment physical, the nurse, Dr, PA, NP (no name tag, don't know what they were) came in, did the normal things, then sat down in front of me a ND teacher under my gown and did the genital check. She had me turn around and bend over the table and spread my legs for the rectal. Things hang pretty low in front so I'm sure she got a good view of my goodies from behind. Don't know why she reached under my gown

Late 20s, I was having some serious back pain for an extended period of time and my grandfather offered to bring me to his doctor who had given him some relief. I took grandpa up on his offer.

I thought that the doctor that grandpa was taking me to was a chiropractor but it turns out the he was a D.O. - doctor of osteopathy - who are full fledged doctors like an MD is. But I did not realize that at the time.

Grandpa stayed in the exam room with me and I was told to strip down to my boxer shorts. I didn't mind that, grandpa had seen me in my boxer shorts before.

To make a long story short, the exam started with a lot of stretching and range of motion procedures, and some spinal adjustments, as a chiropractor would do. And that lasted a good 15 or so minutes. But then the D.O. started to do some typical physical exam procedures which proceeded along just like my physical exams did. Bottom line is that I indeed was getting a physical exam and I had to remove my boxer shorts for a complete genital examination which culminated in a prostate exam - with grandpa sitting there watching the whole thing! I certainly did not expect to be getting a rectal exam standing just a couple of feet from where grandpa sat - quite a surprise that day!

I was in my early 20s, and needed to have a mandatory physical. Dad made an appointment with his doc, and i discovered too late he was evidently former military.

Started out in just briefs, then they dropped. Heard ok, grab your knees…

Wow! What an ending!

I was in my early 20s, and needed to have a mandatory physical. Dad made an appointment with his doc, and i discovered too late he was evidently former military. Started out in just briefs, then they dropped. Heard ok, grab your knees… Wow! What an ending!

@Buttchecked Hey! Exact same experience for me, but a little younger, at my college physical exam. Dad's doctor was an ex-Army doctor. Got the whole works, inside and out hahaha.

When I went to my new primary doctor to establish him as my doctor and refill some prescriptions he did a complete physical. I knew I was due but didn’t think he would do one at my first appointment. thank goodness I shaved my legs that day and freshly trimmed down below.

Weird but pleasant surprise at with the doctor. I was in my mid-40s at the time and my doctor, a man a few years older than I,explained that at my age it was time for a colon cancer check and in those days that meant a using rigid metal tube colon-scope. Following several enemas at home I returned “clean” for the exam. Soon found myself ass up on the table with the doctor and an attending female nurse. He explained the procedure, told me not to be worried, and began with a digital exam. At this point the nurse touched my lower back and assured me everything was going to be routine. As the colonscope move forward into me, the nurse's moved her reassuring hand from my back down to my hip and finally upper leg/ groin area. My attention quickly shifted from the metal probe in my butt to the effect of her warming hand. The doctor found nothing of interest and left the nurse to clean me up.