Jobs that require physical exams

I've had a few pre employment medicals in the past. I am currently in the insurance industry. I had a very basic medical when I started with the company nurse. She only checked height, weight, blood pressure and asked a few life style questions. Since then I have been examined by the company doctor where the exam is far more involved. I also had an ECG for work last year.

I work in a health care setting and I was required to get a physical. It was really simple...the doctor came in, checked my vision, looked in my ears and mouth, checked my balance, and that was it.

As a nurse, I am required to have a physical every year. I generally see my own MD for my physical & him fill out the form & I bring it in to the employee health nurse. About 5 yrs ago, I was busy & time got away from me. I didn't have my physical done before the date of the one the year prior. So, one day while I was working, about a month past the overdue date for my last yearly physical, I received a call from the employee health nurse. She told me I was overdue for my physical & that there was a doctor at employee health that day to perform physicals for employees. I told her I would see my doctor asap & have my physical done. But, she said since the doctor was there that day & since I was over the required yearly time frame since my last physical, I would have to have my physical that day or else I wouldn't be allowed to work until I brought in my completed physical form. She also soon squashed any idea I may have had that I could use some vacation days & take a few paid days off until I saw my doctor. She said employees were not allowed to use vacation time if not working because a physical was overdue.

So, off I went to employee health to have my physical. I thought to myself, "How bad could it be". I thought the doctor would perform a basic exam, taking my BP, listen to my heart & lungs, ask me a few questions & I would basically be done in 5 mins. I soon found out I was wrong when the employee health nurse led me into an exam room, handed me a gown as she told me to take everything off & put on the gown. As I waited, I started wondering if I'd know the doctor who was going to perform my exam & got really nervous. I was both relieved & embarrassed when the doctor came into the exam room. I had never met him before but he was very young. He did exam me as I had initially expected my entire exam to be. But, since I was sitting there completely naked under the paper exam gown, I was pretty sure my exam wouldn't end there. As he told me he was going to exam my breasts, he withdrew the top of my exam gown to expose my breasts and told me to lie down on my back. He examined both of my breasts & squeezed my nipples checking for any discharge. Then, he lowered my gown further to exam & palate my abdomen. I still thought he would end there & I'd get dressed & return to work. But, just as I was going to sit up on the exam table, the employee health nurse pulled out & positioned the stirrups. I can still remember my face feeling very warm & knew I must have been blushing. As I was positioning myself to mount the stirrups & scoot my bottom down to the bottom edge of the exam table, the nurse pulled the drape that was covering my legs up to my waist level. I was still very embarrassed since this was happening at work & I didn't exactly spread my legs right away. So, the nurse had to tell me to let my knees fall open to the sides as she was positioning the exam light to shine right between my open legs. The doctor performed a Pap smear, a digital vaginal exam & also a vaginal rectal exam. After that, I was finally done.

As I continued to work for the rest of the day, I could feel the lube moistening my panties & could still feel the sensation of having had the speculum in my vagina. Never before had I had those sensations after having a GYN exam & then having to return to work. I had always had my GYN exams on a day off from work. I remember wondering if anyone else had been required to have an exam at work who would know I had just been on an exam table, fully naked from the waist down, with my legs up in stirrups.

Great story - thanks for sharing.

Wow book that was a very great story.was the exam area in the same area that ya worked, was wonering if ya saw someone ekse later that day in same room as you just had been?

I had a physical to get my teaching certificate in the early 90s

I have written previously about my last FAA medical exam. Well, that was 5 years ago and it was due again. This exam was okay, basic and nothing particularly new, but still the experience for me was very memorable.

I'm now 27 years old, and otherwise healthy. Earlier this week, I completed the online form to register for the medical certificate. Nothing fancy, just a health history. At the end, there were two doctors who popped up to call to schedule the exam. I googled them, and picked the older doc who is probably 60-65. I made the appointment for today, and waited...

In the interim, I remember having a lot of thoughts about what the exam would entail. My last exam ended with me stripped down to nothing but my boxers, standing in the middle of the room and pushing my last few fibers of clothing to my knees while the doctor rolled each testicle between his fingers and then performed a hernia check. I had also read on the FAA website the instructions on how to perform the exam, and I knew that a GU exam was required, but still that cant mean a lot of different things.

This morning, I thought about whether I should trim my pubic hair. I normally keep my pubs trimmed on about the lowest guard and my scrotum completely shaved. It has been about a month since I tidied up, so I'm still more towards trimmed then bushy. I decided to just go how I am. With that, I took a shower and made sure I was completely clean. I chose boxer briefs for this exam instead of boxers. This would allow a better visualization of my genital bulge if I ended up stripping everything else off.

For me, the exam isnt as much about the exposure itself, but rather not knowing what is going to happen, coupled with the power dynamic of being instructed to expose your self to a completely clothed stranger while they inspect you to make sure your genitals meet their expectations. I gotta be honest, I was nervous. Real nervous. But looking back, thats what makes this enjoyable.

It's all I could think about, all day. On the drive to the office, Justin Beiber's song "I'll Show You" came on the radio. How fitting the lyrics "Act like you know me, but you never will I'll show you / I'll show you" as I'm on my way to show my penis and testicles to this stranger. I checked in, sat down, and waited for about 10 min. I was called back by his nurse, and passed his last patient, a guy of about 50, on my way in. I remember thinking, "He's checked your dick out before."

The nurse did some quick paperwork and walked me to the bathroom. I was told to initial the cup, fill it, and leave in on the counter. I remember looking down at my penis, knowing that the next time it saw the light of day, I wouldnt be alone.

Back in the exam room, I was left to wait. After about 10 min, the doctor enters. He's tall, with glasses, and salt-pepper hair that is fairly stylish for his age. Wearing khaki's and a button down. After the introductions, I was asked to remove my sweater. He took my blood pressure over my shirt sleeve, and continued with the medical history. I'm healthy, so that went really quick. He asked me if It worked out by noting that I had a good build... I liked that he was noticing my build.

Soon enough, up on the exam table. Vision, eyes, ears, mouth all went easily. He asked me to unbutton several of my shirt buttons so he could perform his auscultation. I was stil wearing a crew neck tee shirt underneath my shirt. He slipped the stethoscope inside the neck of my tee shirt and proceeded to listen to my heart. By this point, I have only been asked to take off my sweater, not even my shoes. The history and exam have gone super quick. I mean, he isnt even having me take my shirt off. I started to wonder whether he would even bother his a genital exam.

A quick listen to my lungs and then I was told to lie down. He pulled out the extension, and I complied. He again listened to my heart. Almost as an afterthought, very quickly asked if I had any abdominal tenderness as he took about 5 seconds and palpated.

Surely an exam this cursory wouldnt include exposing my genitalia, right?

"Well hop down and let's get the hernia exam done."

And there it was. The phrase I had been anticipating all week. This guy hadnt even bothered to have me take off my shirt to see my chest, but I wasnt getting that certificate without him seeing my penis. So I stood up at the end of the exam table while he sat in a stool in front of me. He was talking non-chalantly about other things as I undid my belt, button, then zipper. With that, I lowered my pants and boxer briefs to mid thigh, then lifted my shirt tail to make sure he could see everything he needed.

Here I am, a 27 year old guy having small talk with a guy about 60 years old with my clothes framing my genitals as I willfully hold my shirt out of his way to submit myself to his examination. He took his ungloved finger and inserted it into my right inguinal canal. I coughed twice. I quickly looked down to see my penis hanging between my legs as he repositioned his finger to the other side. By now, his finger was now appropriately inside my left inguinal canal. I knew what to do without command, as I turned my head. Cough Cough. And just as quick as everything else, that was it. No examination of the testicles or the penis. He stood up and went the to sink to wash up as I redressed.

He went to finish the paperwork, and then returned with my certificate. He sat down and continued to have several minutes of small talk with me about flying. I remember just sitting there thinking, "not 5 minutes ago I was standing in front of you with my genitals hanging freely while you had that finger shoved up my ballsack." We shook hands, and I left.

I am not a shy person with my genitals. In fact, I'm more the opposite. Both sexually and with roommate / locker room situations, I also enjoy new people seeing my penis. But there will always be something about an exam that is different. This was was very quick, and not very embarrassing. I certainly have had a lot more attention payed to my penis and testicles, even developing erections in the past as a teenager. The thing that struck me with this was how quick the entire exam was. The only areas of skin he ever saw were my face, neck, hands...and genitals.

I went home and immediately went to the bathroom mirror, where I dropped my pants and raised my shirt to see just what it looked like. I snapped a pic, and will share with anyone who wants it.

Nice story. I want to supervise your exam next time. Go ahead and come in to my office and strip down stud!

Playpt - I too am more excited about the anticipation and nervousness of not knowing just how far the doc will be ordering me to strip, rather than the exposure itself. Waiting in the exam room after the nurse leaves is the worst/best time of the exam for me really. Just all the questions that go through my mind looking around the room and seeing some instruments and supplies laid out, but also wondering what's inside the drawers and cabinets that the doc may pull out to use. Given my age (47), I'm never sure exactly what the doc may add to my exam regimen, so there's always a question.

I wouldn't mind seeing an example of what your doc saw at that point in your exam, if you're still willing to share. But most enjoyably, I appreciate knowing that you were mentally as well as physically charged by the exam experience. Thanks for sharing.

I have never had to get a pyhsical exam but I would be quite scared since I wear adult briefs much of the time. I have shown my diapers to my cancer doctor. I am also impotent so there's no issue of getting aroused even if I'm sitting in a full shitty diaper.

There some jobs that required exams when being hired. Truck drivers have to have updated exams when they get hired on to drive for people.

If we focus on a CDL, yes, truck drivers, school bus drivers, tourist and other van drivers, delivery drivers such as FedEx and UPS.

Working for a chemical company the pre-employment physical is too make sure you don't have an obvious physical problem that the company could later be made to pay for as wokman's comp. Aldo they don't want to hire women who are pregnant. Depending on how physical your job is you may get annual physicals. I only saw a doctor on the ore-employment physical. All others were handled by a nurse or PA.

In the past I have worked at factories, sheet metal shops, machine shops, and a couple of construction jobs. Nearly all of them required a preemployment physical. Some were just basic, cursory exams (the factory jobs), while the rest were more thorough, and included a testicular exam/hernia check, and at my current employer, all the above plus a rectal exam. The rectal exam was performed to check my prostate, since I was older than 36. Since then the age has been raised to 40. Such a thorough physical was required due to occupational exposure to certain carcinogenic chemicals and some radiation exposure as well. The physical is required every 4 years. For men, a testicular exam is required, and a rectal exam to check the prostate as well if 40 or older. For women, a breast exam is required at 40 or older, but no pelvic exam is required (but is offered). As part of the physical, both men and women have to have a head to toe skin exam, including around the genital and anal areas, to check for any sores, suspicious moles, or other skin disorders that could be caused by the occupational exposure.

Since I was promoted to an office job 6 years ago, and am no longer exposed to that environment, I no longer need the physical. But soon after the promotion, I had to undergo an "exit physical" from the monitoring program. It is a very strange feeling having a testicular exam and a rectal exam, then going right back to work only a few minutes later, still feeling the lube from the rectal while talking to your coworkers, them knowing where you just came from and what you had done.

Those physicals were awkward to have at work, at the in house clinic, during the workday. Your coworkers know when you are going, since the supervisor tells you when to report for your physical. We have some attractive women that are 40 or older, and when I hear them being told to report for their physicals, I imagine them being examined, including the head to toe skin exam and the breast exam. And in my warped mind, I imagine them agreeing to the offered pelvic exam.......

I've had 2 employment medicals in the manufacturing industry, both of them were very basic exams.

Certain companies require physical exams if their employees want to enroll in their health insurance. I know someone who needed to have a Pap smear done before she could have insurance through her workplace. The form didn't hide it either, it listed on there exactly what to expect from the doctor visit.

Never been required to have a pre -employment physical exam. guess it depends on the industry.

Never had to have a physical or drug screen for work, though I am considered professional level which might account for it. Plenty of criminal background checks, though.

Do those in the medical field have to undergo physical exams?

Do those in the medical field have to undergo physical exams?

YES, WE DO

My mom was a dental hygienist and it did not appear to be required.

My mom was a dental hygienist and it did not appear to be required.

That's different. That isn't a hospital position.

I was a job coach for developmentally delayed adults. I had to have a physical for that job. It wasn't a big deal. They made me pee in a cup, checked my vitals, my eye sight, had me walk on my tippy toes and a few other things like that. The worst part of it all was not being able to wash my hands right away after peeing in the cup, I couldn't wash my hands. They had the faucet handles removed so you couldn't cheat on the pee/drug test.

@Breeze, How does that prevent you from cheating on a drug test?

Both jobs in the manufacturing industry I've had since college required a pre-employment physical. Both required a hernia exam, but did not examine penis, testicles, or rectum. I always thought it was weird that they referred to it as a pre-employment exam. I always had them after I was employed for a week or so.

I wanted to work in a railway company and a medical examination was mandatory. It was in the 70s and I was 18 years old. I had a urine test, an eye check, a chest X-ray, and an auscultation above my belt, without taking off my trousers.

My father also had a test in the 50's to work as postman, he was 25 years old. Before I went to my own exam, he told me that the doctor would see everything. I do not know if he said that because I was very modest or he thought that the doctor would see that I was circumcised. He said that he had to undress completely in front of an authoritarian doctor. Another person of the same age as my father had also told me about an unpleasant examination.

My first experience with a medical requirement for a job, was for working for the Local Eeducation Authority at College, not an examination, but i had to have a chest X ray at the hospital to screen for TB,

second was for a job with Post Office Engineering, again not a full examination, more a health check,

for working on the Railways although called medicals just regular health checks, and drug testing, not a full examination,

I did have, an examination for a bus driving licence application, but that just something i wanted to achieve rather than for a job

@SwitchableSusie a better late than never answer back, lol....I never saw your reply!

@Breeze, How does that prevent you from cheating on a drug test?

Beats me but that was what they told me! I'm not a druggie so I can't answer on the ways of cheating drug test..lol. I was just glad I had hand sanitizer in my purse so I could clean my hands!!

It is done to prevent you from diluting the sample. It is the same reason the toilet water is dyed blue and you are instructed not to flush.

I applied for a government job , for a police dept and I really wanted the job . I was 21 and not the most experienced male when it came to the ladies , I was a late bloomer and boy did I make up for lost time .Anyway on with the story , I arrived at the government building , it was the early eighties and lady doctors were just taking off.I had a lady doctor , she told me to strip to my shorts and yes I was a little nervous, she checked me all over, dropped my shorts , bend over the whole nine yards .What sucked , I did not get the job , I applied a second time and still did not get the job .At times life can really suck.