Mandatory medical exams

To quote Seinfeld, "Like a frightened turtle". Refers to a shrunken penis all shriveled up.

Thank you! Like the time some girls walked in on George Costanza undressed after swimming and giggling about his "turtled" member - "The water was cold"......

I went to state schools in the 50's & 60's leaving in 1969

We used to get medicals every year in the Senior School, but I only remember getting one Medical in the Junior School. These would be stripped down to your underpants & socks.

They would normally start at the top and work downwards, so they would look in your Hair for flees and lice. Then look in both Ears and ask you if you can hear their watch ticking, (you always said "yes" whether you could or not !). Then they would look at your Eyes and then ask you to read the lines on the 'Snellen' Eye chart. Then came the 'Stethoscope' (which you know was kept in a freezer, lol ) to check your Heart and Breathing. Then came the infamous "drop your underpants and cough". Never had my rear inspected ! (I don't know why) then they would look at your feet.... And that was about it.

In between the medicals we would have the "Nit Nurse" visit the School and we also had to visit the School Dentist occasionally, that was quite an ordeal because our School Dentist had got advanced "Parkinson's", so he was all over the place in your mouth. You were always grateful that you still had your Teeth intact, and he didn't try to drill any of them !

To quote Seinfeld, "Like a frightened turtle". Refers to a shrunken penis all shriveled up.

(Re posts #90 and #86. ) Ah! That's what l'd guessed! Pretty logical when you think about it! A turtle pulls its head in, right?! I guess Nick321 and BenDover have been in more locker rooms than l have!

Wasn't Seinfeld a great show?!

- Ken

We had mandatory exams at the age of 13,15 and 17, and still one the first year of university.

As for emplyment, usually if you work for a state company I think, not in private sector.

I have mandatory exams for participating in athletics and enrollment at my university that require signing clearance forms. There's nothing different about it from a normal physical usually.

In France it is mandatory to have a medical exam each year at school or to have an employment. As there is not enough doctors it is often done every 18 months.

For sports you generally need to have a medical certificate except for mountaineering with a mountain guide but he will ask you to have a good physical and technical level practice.

I had to have a medical examination in the police station when I was little after my dad got caught abusing me. The police officer watched the doctor examine me

I think that "mandatory exams" by what the name implies means you absolutely need to show up for it or you don't move forward. This to me raises the level of anxiety and uncertainty. It has to be with an unfamiliar doctor, which means you have no basis to compare or anticipate. The uncertainty of it all makes for a "Shrivel" experience. I guess it does represent the most honest type of physical one can have. You enter the reception area and that is the last time you will feel certain as to what will happen. Great idea. Love the concept.

Nick

It would seem that my experience is somewhat different to others here as i only ever had one complete medical examination in my entire life. At state school in the Uk during the 1960's I can only ever remember one so called medical that took place in about Year 9 (Called 3rd Year back then). This involved our class going to the PE changing rooms and putting on the truly terrible school gym kit of yellow rugby shirt and some faded blue disgusting shorts. We were then walked across the school to the medical room where we lined up outside, before being told to enter one at a time.

The examination was cursory to say the least, which involved the usual head and chest inspection, but at no time were we inspected below the waist line. That was my one and only school medical.

After doing a "Gap Year" I got a place at University and in the July before starting my local authority instructed that I had a medical examination with their appointed doctor in a nearby town. They did this as most students had local authority grants which more or less paid out way during the three year course. The examination took place at the rather imposing Victorian building which was central in the small town; this building normally held meetings and all sorts of shows and displays.

To have the medical I had to go up a huge stairway and wait on a chair posted in the large corridor outside the room where the medical was to be conducted. I seem to remember there were only two chairs and I was alone waiting. After quite some time a door opened and a nurse asked me to enter and this appeared to be her "office" where she took some details from me and the paperwork I had been instructed to bring with me. After completing this she informed me that the doctor will come and collect me shortly. The adjoining door opened and this elderly small lady in a white coat entered the room. She was wearing heavy horned rimmed spectacles and her grey hair was pulled up into what we call a "Bun", she looked pretty stern to say the least.

The doctor then asked me to accompany her into the next room which was absolutely huge and had a very high ceiling and windows on the outside wall that were very high up under the ceiling. There were now curtains or blinds but I could see no overlooking buildings so obviously not needed. Under these windows there was a quite large looking black examination couch with no screens at all, also around this very large room were other things like scales and height measuring equipment, plus the doctors desk and chairs which was located right back at the far end of the room.

After going through my paperwork the doctor instructed me to go and get undressed down to my under pants near the examining couch and that my clothes could be placed on the chair at the end of the couch. She did not actually sound at all stern after all and told me that when ready to walk over to the scales. All the usual took place from then on. Following on from feeling all around my abdomens walked down to the end of the couch and asked me to slid down towards her so that my kegs hung over the end; standing beside me she took hold of my underpants waist band and eased them down a small amount and placed her fingers into my groin area and up against my testicles. While like this she asked me to cough and then promptly replaced my slightly lowered briefs back in place and said we are finished.

At no time was my penis inspected let alone looked at, or my testicles for that matter.

After completing college we were supposed to have a medical but this was even less intrusive that the one scheduled at my secondary school, I did not even have to get undressed at all. So that was my total experience until last year some 50 years later when due to a health issue I was referred to a doctor of dermatology where he gave me the most thorough examination I have ever had in my life. I have described this and the follow up exam from a few weeks ago in the "Library".

We had mandatory school physicals. These were every year (or twice a year, depending on the sport) for anyone in athletics and just certain years (I believe grades 1, 6, 8, 10) for non-athletes. They were always done at school except for one year during renovations when we were taken to a hospital where they were done by the same group that always came in to our school to do them.

For the ones for sports, there was a fitness portion that was done first in the gym, then the medical portion was done partly in the other half of the gym and then the final exam by the main doctor in the school health office. USUALLY this was all done in one event but there were times when you would have the fitness part done and then be told when to report back for the medical part.

To Dr Jack, coming from the UK, was exactly my experience, never examined intimately or messed around with unnecessarily. At 57 I am still fit, never been hospitalized for any issues. I don' go for physicals, If I do consult a Dr. its because I need fixing, but usually very minor issue.

The only “mandatory” exams I had Growing up were for school sports...most were no different than a regular physical.

MEPS for the Air Force, FAA Airman Medical Certificate Exam, pre-employment exams with widely varying degrees of thoroughness for almost every job I’ve ever had, once every two years to maintain hospital privileges, and four college entrance physicals.

@Big Easy Guy

Good to know that my experiences in the UK were not so uncommon after all. I am 69 now and never had my genitals looked at in all my years living in the UK. I moved to France over 10 years ago and last year was the very first time a doctor had a look around them during my initial dermatology examination.

I had school medicals every year until I was 18, I had a pre-employment medical for my first job with a Council, in the days when they employed pretty much full time doctors. I have a well-man medical every 12 months, but this is not mandatory, I have them through choice. I have been doing this for about 10 years or so.

I started an apprenticeship when I was 18. I had passed an admission exam, I still had to pass a medical examination which had to be a simple formality, I had no illness, the only one known was mild scoliosis.

I don't remember if there was a medical questionnaire to fill out, it is possible and I probably had to send it in advance to my future employer or to the doctor. These questionnaires always asked if we had any operations and I mentioned circumcision, even if it was not very important for a check-up. I don't say it anymore, unless it's an urologist.

So I had a discussion with my father about it, my mother also had to listen. My father told me that the doctor would see that I was circumcised. He explained that he had undergone an identical examination 20 years earlier, by a very rude doctor, and that he had to undress completely. I think it was from the start of the consultation and not just for the genital exam.

I was not very reassured, I was afraid to get hard during the exam, I was not unaware of my medical fetish.

To make matters worse, I fell ill the day before the exam, very brutally. It was March, it was flu. It would have been better to postpone the exam, but it would have made a bad impression. My parents recommended that I go anyway.

The next day I stayed in bed in the morning. My mother gave me medicine to lower the fever. It also contained caffeine, I am quite sensitive to this product, I limit my coffee consumption to 2-3 cups per day. I jerked off to avoid getting too aroused, rather useless, I could barely get an erection.

So I went to the doctor, I was worried because I was afraid he would find out that I was sick. He was alone in his office which looked more like an apartment, no receptionist. It could be a retired doctor who only had a limited number of patients. He asked me to go to the bathroom to urinate into a container. I remember an old bathtub.

I don't remember all the details of the exam, part of it included a visual test to make sure I was not color blind. Then I had to take off my sweater, not the pants. He auscultated me, my heart was beating too fast, from the caffeine and stress. The doctor then gave me an X-ray with a device that looked very old. I was able to get dressed and he told me it wasn't a big deal to get an exam, he saw that I was nervous, but probably not that I had the flu. He didn't check my temperature.

I was reassured, I told my parents that everything had gone well and that I didn't even have to take my pants off. It was actually the first time I had discussed the topic of a doctor's genital examination with my parents. After the school visits, they never asked me if the doctor did it (or I don't remember). My mother must have guessed since she had attended the first school visit.

It had not gone so well since I was admitted with a restriction, I should have a second exam at the end of the apprenticeship. I was never called in. There is no occupational medicine in Switzerland. My job did not require periodic reviews for safety reasons. I only had a lung x-ray once.

We had to undergo a mandatory medical examination for a college entrance for all colleges which were in ‘biomedical category’, and it was done by defined doctor, not your own.

In the end, boys had to remove their boxers for hernia and testicle exam, and girls said that at one moment they were required to be topless for a heart auscultation followed by a breast exam. For my college doctor was female of 45 - 50 yo, but for medical school doctor was male and I have always imagined how that doctor examined my busty friend who went to medical school.

As many people here stated, mandatory exams are usually the most exciting, since you don't know who will examine you, what exams will you have to undergo, and certainly puts huge power in doctor's hands since he/she is the only one to give you the certificate you need.

To carry a commercial drivers license here in the US it is mandatory that you have a medical examiners card. These are usually not a very invasive physical depending on the doctor but then that beginning said they can be very invasive also depending on the doctor.

I had a mandatory examination age 21 for English Bus driving licence, it was a very through examination undertaken privately by GP, the examinations i've had for employment however were not really examination at all,

as a schoolboy i had a complete examination age 6, but none later sadly, i think regular mandatory examinations should be the norm

I live in the US and physical exams were mandatory if you wanted to play sports in school. We did not have any mandatory physical exams for any other reasons. But if you wanted to play sports, you had to have a physical from either you own doctor or at the group sport physicals given at school.

I went to university in London in the mid 1970s. Males were not required to take a medical exam but females were. These were with a college doctor.

Most female students were terrified as word quickly got around that the exam included a mandatory gyno, which for most was their 1st experience of an intimate examination. One girl told me that she was asked by the male doctor if she was on the pill. When she replied in the negative he asked “Do you need to be?”

I assume the reason for the check-ups was to ensure no unwanted pregnancies among young people away from home for the first time.

In the US you’re required to have a physical for sports

I only had a mandatory medical exam, when I applied to enter a law enforcement career. In reality, my doctor completed a confidential questionnaire about my health history. Apparently there were no issues, because I was accepted. If you apply for many civil service jobs, you are required to take a physical exam, and drug test. Ironically, I’ve seen that many government employees have serious health issues, that would disqualify you for employment with a corporation. And, yes, corporate America does discriminate, based on health conditions. They just claim that they don’t.

I live in the US and physical exams were mandatory if you wanted to play sports in school. We did not have any mandatory physical exams for any other reasons. But if you wanted to play sports, you had to have a physical from either you own doctor or at the group sport physicals given at school.

When I was in school, you didn't even have the choice of using your own doctor. It HAD to be school's provided physical exam or it didn't count. The only thing your own doctor could do is your vaccinations/boosters but the school one would also do that if needed.

For a country like the US that seems so keen on mandatory medical exams for just about everything under the sun, it amazes me that each exam can vary so much from doctor to doctor even for the same things, yet the US is still one of the countries in the world with the most unhealthy people living in it. It seems I have had to undergo mandatory exams for so many things my entire life. I have had to have mandatory exams for school, for summer camp, for sports, for universities, for insurance purposes, and for employment. However each could be so different even for the same things from year to year. All have ranged from just answering questions on forms to the most complete and invasive exams imaginable. It really makes no logical sense as one would think they would be more standardized across the board.

For a country like the US that seems so keen on mandatory medical exams for just about everything under the sun, it amazes me that each exam can vary so much from doctor to doctor even for the same things,

Perhaps tangential, but the US is a huge nation, with many different cultures and with states joining that were either once independent nations themselves or acquired from other nations by war or purchase. Not to even mention immigration from almost every region on Earth. What people think of as American homogeneity was something that started to emerge after the world wars, especially after WWII and the rise of the consumer society and television broadcasting.

So not really that surprising.

For instance, when I was living in NJ back in the 1950s/60s, my mother apparently expressly looked for a family doctor who had recently come from Europe. I think our family doctor was from Italy, which wasn't that hard to find so close to NYC … ha ha. And my father, from Mobile Alabama, apparently had a German trained doctor.

So there was a wide range of different cultural upbringings in the US. All of which manifest themselves in different ways of doing things or approaching things.

There was probably also a big difference in doctors who had seen active service during WWII and reentered private practice afterwards and those who hadn't seen service.

@Annie204 How often do you have your medicals at work, and do all employees have them, or just those who are in certain jobs?

For a country like the US that seems so keen on mandatory medical exams for just about everything under the sun, it amazes me that each exam can vary so much from doctor to doctor even for the same things, yet the US is still one of the countries in the world with the most unhealthy people living in it. It seems I have had to undergo mandatory exams for so many things my entire life. I have had to have mandatory exams for school, for summer camp, for sports, for universities, for insurance purposes, and for employment. However each could be so different even for the same things from year to year. All have ranged from just answering questions on forms to the most complete and invasive exams imaginable. It really makes no logical sense as one would think they would be more standardized across the board.

It also has changed over the years as attitudes about both costs and privacy have changed. The physicals my school did when I was in elementary and high school (using their outside provider) were WAY more detailed and comprehensive than physicals I get now as an insured, paying adult. When we had out big physicals for major sports like wrestling, the whole process would take more than 3 hours. Now, granted, a lot of that was waiting in between stations, because of the number of kids, but a lot of it was also due to the number of tests they did.

In Soviet Union there were multiple mandatory exams. Starting from nursery and then at school annual exams. Then military draft exams with the first as early as at 14 and then 16 and finally at 18 if you were unfortunate to be recruited to 2 years in the army. In many regions military draft exams were completely in nude until as recent as 1970s.

I studied at a railroad college for four years. Mandatory medical examinations were performed annually. We were examined by an ophthalmologist, an otolaryngologist, and a neurologist who tapped knees with a small hammer. In conclusion, the head of the medical commission made the final examination and stamped the document of professional suitability. The head of the commission was a man in his 50s. He sat in a separate office. I should have stripped down to my underwear in front of the office and walked in with the documents in my hands. He asked a few questions. Then he listened with a stethoscope my chest and back. Then I had to take my panties off down to my knees. Then he stamped his stamp and I left the office to get dressed.