What does your doctor do with the speculum after the exam?

At the conclusion of your exam, does your doctor leave the used speculum out where it is visible, or does he/she put it away where it is out of sight? I am curious as to what your experiences have been with this.

Thanks.

In the majority of my exams, the doctor either puts it in the sink or back on the Mayo stand, covered with a towel.

She places it in the bin in the table after my wife's exam. Metal spec.

He licks it. 😁

Careful Susie - one of us non-moderators may have to pull you back into line...;-)

Ooooh, Susie! Great comeback, I wish I had thought of that! You go, girl!

Haha, Susie took the words right out of my mouth after I saw the title of this post!

LOL, but no he just sets it off to the side on the tray and covers it in a paper towel....

He puts it back in a small clear plastic tray for cleaning later. My other doctors usually keep them in a drawer right under my extended rear end. They just put in the sink after they do their job.

The few time I went with an ex-gf, she put it on a paper on the table with other instruments,then finished the discussion and made the necessary paper, before cleaning the exam area for the next patient while we were running out the office

He licks it. 😁

best reply award of last year!!!

that's for sure! 😁

I agree, that's he best reply ever!

Throw the plastic ones out and re sterlize the metal

My ob/gyn uses a metal speculum and and when she is done with she puts it in the sink

When finished my gyn sets the metal speculum in the sink.

The practice I go to uses metal secs and usually puts them in the sink but a couple of times they've been put in a biohazard trash can type of thing under the sink.

She just sets it back on the tray

My GF told that her doctor put it in some liquid in a beaker. Perhaps a beaker with antiseptic.

My girlfriend once told me that the doctor threw the speculum in the sink after the exam. She said it startled her.

Oh Christ, just read Susie's response whilst eating my breakfast! ??? Be interesting to see what happens in a couple of weeks as my new doc it seems uses plastic ones - a first for me. I'll see how they dispose of it.

I think that Susie said that with 'tongue in cheek' Elizabeth, lol

Sounded more like tongue in speculum BigK !! lol

The last 2 exams i've had the speculum had been put in a waste container. the very first exam i had the doctor used a metal speculum and he left it sitting on the medical tray afterwards. i looked at it and it had a little bit of blood on it from stretching my hymen.

I've been to many of my wife's exam. Most of the time if its a plastic speculum the doc just throws it in the trash out of view. If its a metal one, there is a shallow pan with a soapy solution, a few moments you can see about a dozen "dirty" ones added to the top and lid goes back on.

I can't think of any that did anything other than put it is the sink or on the metal tray sitting next to the table, but most just put it in the sink close by

My wife's gyno uses metal speculums and places them in the sink.

I asked my doctor once and he now gives me the used plastic ones to take home and use as a sex toy or for photo sessions....the first time I asked and told him what it was for he jokingly said "Ok, as long as I get to see the pictures." I had my husband take some pics of me in lingerie and spread with the speculum in and a post-it note saying "Eat your heart out (my doctor's name)" The next time I saw him was on his birthday and I slipped several of the pics into his card...I'm not sure if he was more excited of embarrassed....but he did look at them for an awfully long time before he insisted on giving them back to me.

She simply puts it back in a metak box for reuse after cleaning

The doctor my girlfriend uses has a dishpan kind of thing full of some soapy stuff that they keep under the table. When they are done they pull it out, plunk the speculum in than slip it back.

We had one of the last apointments one night and we saw one of the nurses going to all the rooms and "bussing" the used speculums with a cart. She must have had 100 of them on the cart.

With disposale plastic speculums, I have always seen them put straight into the bin.

With the metal ones, I have seen them put into a pan or bucket under the exam couch, or next to it.

I even saw a used metal speculum in a bucket under the exam couch when I went to the GP. Clearly it had only just been used on (in?) the previous patient....

My doctor uses metal speculum and she puts them on a tray next to the exam table when she is finished. This is the same tray the speculum (as well as other devices) was on before the exam.