Examination | Ever have a disappointing exa…

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I just got back from a disappointing exam...ever had one and why?

I read online about a research study that I qualified to participate in (not going into details sonpleasecfont ask - I won't give details).

I made the appointment and was told I would need to see the doctor in thr first visit. He would ask questions. He would perform a complete physical. I knew the doctor was pressed for time due to an appointment 30 minutes after my arrival.

Nurse brought me into the exam room and requested that I remove my clothes and put in the gown. Much to my dislike of gowns I played thr game since this was my first time meeting this doctor. I did ask opening front or back...answer was opening back. I left on my socks.

Doctor came in and literally as you are reading this...this is as fast as it went:

Hello...

Deep breath in (back)

Deep breath in (front)

Normal breath (front)

Open your mouth.

Lay back in thr table please.

He lifted the gown up.

Touched my scrotum with right hand

Lifted my penis with left as he did a quick visual inspection

(yes done that fast)

Roll to side away from me.

Lubed finger up my ass and out.

Great candidate

Out of the room.

What? Really? I even joked with the nurse by saying "seriously it was that important that I see him for that quick a once over? She said "this study has very low qualifications to enter. If you were in xyz study it would be in much more depth."

Thought for the way they made it sound - dire that he meet me for the physical - I hardly flashed him! Lol

n/a

I have had a few, lately.

One doc I see, from time to time, only took my oral history, and listened to my lungs, through my shirt. Any issue I brought to her attention, she would respond with 'and how does that make you feel?' I am scheduled to see her again, in two-three months. I may not even go to that one. It seems like it's a waste of both of our times.

I went in to see a specialist, he calls me into the exam room. He sits at his desk saying, "what (sigh) brings (sigh) you (sigh) in (sigh) today? (sigh, with eye roll). I seriously thought at that instant to turn around and leave. What an ass!

supermoney777

I haven't yet had a yearly physical where my pants didn't come down, but the one I had 3 years ago was very abbreviated and fully clothed. It started with a very quick HEENT. Then chest and back with the stethoscope (at least he went under my shirt). Then I laid down for a couple presses on my abdomen. Then dropped pants for cursory feel of my testicles, then hernia check, then I done.

It was one of those exams where you feel the doctor is just going through the motions and wouldn't find an issue even if it was there. I'm sure he was actively checking things, but the speed of the exam was worrisome.

JTMac

The 2nd year after my company switched from having a doctor onsite to a middle age nurse practitioner, For the first time, "Part 2" of the exam consisted of just sitting in her office, discussing results from my blood & urine, and a strong recommendation that i find my own pcp for annual physicals.

Until then, I had more complete annual physicals at work, and had no need for a pcp since i was healthy and getting checked annually anyway. "Part 2" was traditionally the doctor mainly auscultating, palpating, hernia, testicular, & more recently, DRE, in addition to discussing urine & blood results.

During the 1st year that the nurse practitioner took over performing the exams, i even took advantage of her offer to have my genitals examined. And i was looking forward to this again.

So yes, i found the clothed office discussion rather disappointing.