Examination | Doctor requiring male patient…

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I have read that it is a regular practice with some doctors to have male patients who are already bent over the exam table for a rectal exam to point their toes together. Has it happened to you? Did it spread the buttocks apart more so the doctor doesn't have to? Is this an old practice that no longer happens or did it happen to you in the last few years? Did the doctor explain it?

esaterman

Sometimes a rectal examination and DRE for prostate with insertion of a finger is performed like some have said laying on the examination table on a side with one leg flexed, sometimes and I think as I was said by a doctor that it is the better position sitting on all fours on the table with feet apart and butts pointing in the air rather than bending over the table.

For and during military service, I have had several military physicals ( three in a pre-induction military center and other ones after induction ), all the military doctors performed a DRE : it could be sitting on all fours on the examination table, or for a group exam with all draftees bending over at the same time in line with feet apart and touching their toes.

RichardAsni

Exactly how my first rectal exam went. I was 20, had it in my university medical clinic. Young male doctor. I was bent over the exam table, toes in, elbows in the table. Didn’t get his finger in my anus the first try. Didn’t spread my cheeks either. He seemed nervous, inexperienced. Maybe an intern?

Patient414

I was once asked to do this by a play doc about 10-12 years ago. It really caught me off guard because I hadn't ever heard or watched this in a video before during a rectal exam. However, I do think it helped to perhaps spread the cheeks open. It wasn't expected and helped keep my mind off of what was happening I suppose. He was a 3rd year medical student so I figured he had learned the rectal exam in that way

An alternate option that I have heard of doctors doing is to instruct the patients to stand with the elbows or chest on the table and one leg on each side of the foot stool/step at he bottom of the exam table. That's a good 12 inches or so wide which certainly would spread a guy open. Much like Dr. Deane does in his MalePhysical exams

Musterung

Exactly how my first and unexpected rectal exam went. I was 33, had it in the office of my GP. Male doctor in his 40ies. I was bent over the exam table, elbows and uper body onto the table. had to spreas my legs shoulder-bride and then toes inwards.

J9999

Only once by a female NP