Doc recommendation for new colleague

Had lunch with a new colleague yesterday. He's also new to town. Sports obsessed, into triathlons so very fit, 25 y.o. Over lunch he told me that he needs to find a male doc as he is overdue a thorough physical. He asked me for recommendations. That totally distracted me from lunch. Haha!

I managed to keep the conversation going throughout lunch asking him all about what type of exam he is looking for. We got on to the pre-employment physical he had for our company, the exams he had from his last regular doc and before that college sports physicals.

One of the most interesting lunch hours I've had for a while 😉

I've given him a couple of recommendations (lucky docs!) and will definitely follow up next week to find out how he got on...

I'd so love to watch this exam..

You could recommend one of your own doctors, and then offer to drive him to his appt, just because he's new in town and doesn't know his way around. Then who knows where it might go from there. 😃

Interesting idea JJ. He doesn't have a car yet so that could work well 😉

Maybe I could schedule an exam around the same time with the same doc and who knows what could happen then......

If you offer to drive him there, at least you're at the doctor's office with him. Even if you don't end up in the exam room with him (which would be doubtful), you could sit in the waiting room and just imagine what your doctor is doing to him.

Yes, that sounds interesting and maybe a little sensual. I presume the exam you were referring to was a digital ? the problem I always have with my Doc is that his rectal exams seem to be more stimulating while he is preparing to give me the finger. "Lay on you side, right leg up to chest over left, now putting a little lube on my finger, you may feel a little coldness." ....... and then before I even know what happened he says .. ok... you can wipe.

hugh ! never felt anything, never gave me a chance to enjoy it. Guess I need a new Doc !

One thing for sure, if he were here in the N.Calif. area and wanted a private rectal exam, I would give him one that he would remember for a long time. Wonder if the Doc gave him a nice warm enema first ? I usually do for my patients. !! and it seems to keeping them cuming back time after time.

We didn't talk much about DREs but I did learn he had never had one but thought it was time to have his prostate checked. He said there was a family history of prostate problems.

I assured him the 2 docs I recommended were very thorough and wouldn't miss out that bit of the physical. It wasn't the time to tell him in detail over lunch but I've been checked out by both these docs and those exams included the most thorough rectal exams I've had 😃

I hope I do at least get to drive him there and back and sit in the waiting room during his exam so we can discuss what happened, and I can dream...

The two docs you recommended - How do they do exams?

Very thoroughly

They are both at the same medical center and have a great reputation. Both in their early 30s (went to med school together) and specialize in mens health particularly for work and sports. A lot of the big oil and gas companies here retain them for employment physicals. The waiting room is usually full of healthy looking guys between 20 and 40...

One of their nurses takes patients into the pre-exam room where you strip to underwear (they don't offer gowns unless you ask for one) and the nurse takes BP, height, weight, temperature (ear not rectal 😢 ), blood and urine for most physicals. Sometimes they send you to radiology for a chest x-ray which requires crossing the corridor (only 5 yards) in your underwear. After the preliminaries you wait in the pre-exam room to go through to see one of the docs in the adjoining exam room.

The docs do head-to-toe exams taking 30-45 minutes usually. First half you keep on your underwear before removing them for the genital and rectal exams. Both docs are really thorough with those parts of the exam 😉

Great thread...hope you end up with more to report back to us. 😃

Great stuff here!!! Any update on how things went with your friend?

I didn't manage to give him a ride to the docs office but he did go last week and we discussed what happened a couple of days later.

He told me he was surprised but pleased about just how thorough his exam had been. He said that the DRE exam was particularly thorough and he got an erection which he found hugely embarrassing. I told him not to worry and that the doc will be used to that as he examines young guys all the time. He has agreed with the doc to attend every 6 months for check-ups which sounds a bit much but he is keen and apparently the insurance co will pay.

We are both going on work assignment to India next month so have both been told my our employer to get a load of shots updated. We have back-to-back appointments fixed with the same doc next week to get those which am I both apprehensive about (last time some of them were really painful and went in the butt cheek) and looking forward too - hopefully we will be seen together 😉

NICE! I would of offered off the bat to take him to his exam!