Exam Souvenirs?

I was wondering if any of you ever take home exam Souvenirs?

New or used?

I had an ex who grabbed a speculum once. She was too shy to let me tag along. I don't condone that (Stealing speculums), but at the same time her annual with a NP was damn near $300. We did have a lot of fun with her hot speculum. She did that without my even asking.

I have been tempted to grab the spent paper products. The table paper had the most perfect outline of her ass on it and a little gob of goo from right under her cookie.

Has anybody else ever brought home anything from one of their real exams?

I was with my girlfriend for a check up at her GP and while we were waiting I snooped around and found a bag of plastic speculum. I happen to steal on of them and a few other goodies. This happened right before the doctor came in, talk about a crazy rush. I can't wait to get more stuff next time. So much stuff to bring home with you when we go. The gyno is better than a gp though, its like a gold mind!

At least you're doing your part to drive up the cost of medical care. Way to go!

If you just want a speculum, there's a one-word answer - eBay. If you get a thrill from stealing, they have psychotherapy for that.

Being a charitable sort of bloke I'll just say that I hope and trust that your purloined plastic disposable speculum doesn't break whilst inserted and cause a severe laceration - having been used, washed, opened, closed and thrown around far more than it was intended to be!

Or would that be a just visitation?

My comment is about the stealing, not about gyno exams per se.

In our small charter airplanes we keep three airsickness bags at every passenger seat location. They are plain white bags, without any logo or printing that would make them a meaningful souvenir. Folks rarely get airsick when I'm flying them, and when they do I know it. I know how many bags get used for their intended purpose. But inevitably way more bags disappear than ever get used. We learned the hard way to not keep the airplane's FAA required status book in a convenient seat-back pocket, because it will disappear too.

Generally the caliber of passenger who can afford to charter an airplane are not people in deep financial distress. The same lawyer who will defend you against a theft charge will rip off a status book and a handful of barf-bags into his briefcase and look you in the eye when he gets off the airplane. One time a fire extinguisher disappeared from beside my seat, five inches from my butt, and I never saw it happen. The passengers that day were police officers on the way back from a conference. Whatever did happen to the basic concept that stealing is wrong?

And no, I have never stolen a souvenir from my gynecologist.

Hugs,

Diane

When your moms a gynecologist and your house used to have a clinic in one of the downstairs rooms....you have all the souveniers you'll ever need! LOL

The only things I've ever taken away from the doctor's for use in play are ideas ;-)

Steffy...I think I would have been in heaven growing up in your house!

This thread has taken off in a way different direction than I had intended it to. Anyway, some commeants..

I never condoned taking anything of value. That's just me. I was talking more about used stuff, the paper gown you wore, etc.

As far as taking things goes. It is not right, but I suspect general corporate stupidity costs orders of magnitude more than people occasionally walking off with a speculum.

I can relate to the barf bags on the air plane, as we had a similar thing, and management got all in a tizzy about our group using to many inexpensive expendable supplies. I would have bought into it if not two weeks later management made a minor change to our logo and they literally dumped *everything* with the old logo on it in the trash. From business cards to sweat shirts. I still have cases of tee shirts. Globally it had to be in 6 figures. If we were a big company and we made a major change (went from a red to blue logo for example) I could see it, but this was a very minor cosmetic change, effected by a new director of marketing, for the sole purpose of showing us all how big his dick was. In fact I have never worked in a place that was not penny wise and pound foolish. That one may just be my luck of the draw.

However unique to the medical and drug industries..

Until recently my partner did not have insurance. The difference in what they get paid back (co pay + what the insurance pays) was down right criminal. She would get dinged near 100% for not having insurance. It is just amazing how two people can get the same exam, use the same expendables, and the same amount of time, yet one pays almost 100% more because they don't have an insurance company behind them to negotiate a lower rate. So, the medical and drug industries seem to zero problem picking your pocket unless you have a powerful advocate.

So, I don't condone stealing, but I think realistically that small scale stuff gets lost in the statistical noise. Also, if you work at a medical practice and you have a speculum at home, honestly, where did it come from?

Not to piss anybody off, but something to ponder.

--Reg

First of all, I don't think Reg meant that all medical professionals steal. At least I didn't get that out of his post and I am usually pretty sensitive to comments along those lines. He was saying that if you work in a doctors office and you happen to have some medical equipment at home, chances are, or could be possible that they acquired them from work. He wasn't saying that as fact, but saying it as a pretty good probability, and I have to agree with him. It's just common sense.

Doc is a private practice doc as most of you who have followed my posts know. He owns that practice and is in charge. He has a lot of patients, but his staff is small, maybe 5 or 6 employees, some of which are part time. Anyway, he has told me more than a few times about things coming up missing. And the way he runs his practice, it makes it hard for a patient to do the stealing. He doesn't have a nurse, so he goes to the waiting room himself and calls his patients back, so usually the patient isn't alone in his exam room or given the chance to steal anything usually.

So, most of the stealing that has gone on there I would assume is being done by the staff. It's little stuff really, but again, even the little stuff add to the bottom line in one way or another. Some of the things he's noticed missing are things like Fleet enemas, and drug rep stuff, not meds, but the stuff they used to bring in and what not. He did have a patient steal his phone once though. That was a real trip. My phone rang, I was at the grocery store and I opened my phone and saw his number. Well it was like 3PM, his office doesn't close until 6, so if he was calling me in the middle of the day, something must be up. He has called me a time or two for, oddly enough, medical advice on a wound vac or something that I have more hands on experience with, so I answered it. On the other end was a lady. She sounded drunk, she said she didn't know who or where she was. That was weird, really weird. I made sure she was safe and to stay where she was, I was able to get out of her that she had been to see Doc earlier that day. But the odd thing is, she called me, he probably has 300 number in his phone, but yet she managed to call the one person that was 600 miles away. I got another customers phone, and called Doc's office and told them what happened, and as long as I was able to stay on the phone with her they could track her which is what I believe either they did or the police did, but by days end, Doc has his phone back.

I guess I can honestly say that I have been and still am guilty for stealing things from work too. The stuff I steal are things like Sharpie markers, but I steal them because I use them for work, but they come home with me in my lab coat pockets and are returned to be used back at work the next day, and this continues until it runs out of ink, so is that really stealing? Sometimes I raid the snack cart once the resident have had their fill, I haven't had time to go to dinner, so I will snag a few things of grape juice and a couple bags of animal cookies for myself, is probably stealing too, but it will just get tossed in the trash anyway. And then once in a while you have that surprised odd period that pops up in the middle of no place and you need something, so you grab a posy pad from a non-private paying resident, since our tax dollars are paying for them anyway and you use one to get you by until you can go and get your own. Heck when I got really sick on July 4 that one night which was the start of my bowel issue I basically stole a dulcolax and a fleet suppository, I was trying to do anything to fix my self so that I could get my job done to the best of my ability and get the hell out of there. Now after I went to the hospital and got fixed, I had to go into my boss and tell her what I stole and that I was going to bring them back. She was fine with that, but told me I didn't really have to and that nursing takes care of their own. But, I am not really a thief, so I replaced both items.

As far as people who have insurance and who don't have insurance paying differently I don't believe to be true at all. I do honestly believe that the people who are living on the welfare systems when they don't need to be are the ones that are making out like the hands of thieves that they are. But that too is another topic for another day.

Sometimes you can get discounts if you pay in cash, but you usually have to ask. And remember, We pay our insurance premiums every month, plus our co-pays when we go, so it still basically adds up to the same price.

Mashie