Doctor's dictation to the nurse about genitals

I have not personally experienced this, but I think I have read few posts somewhere about the doctor dictating to the nurse if a patient "attained erection" during a well checkup, or a physical examination.

The commonality with these seems to be that these were couple of decades ago, and happened during physical exams during the peak of development. I am not sure if these accounts are true or fantasy.

If it WERE true, then I wonder what was the reason back then to make a note about it? I can't imagine a nurse writing down those words on a physical exam form that other non medical personnel may see.

In the context of a play exam this could be the case but in a real life scenario I doubt it would take place.

I have never had a patient have an erection during a physical exam in all my forty years of medical practice. Since a female was never present while I examined such patients no stimulus existed to cause such erections. I guess I'm not attractive enough to cause gay patients to have erections. If it had ever happened I would never have dictated this to a nurse. I would have dictated this when I dictated a note to the phone system which we use to produce the medical record. People seem a bit obsessed about inadvertent erections during a physical. It hasn't happened to me except when I once saw a fractured cervical spine. The erection was entirely a result of the trauma and not voluntary. It might have been the last erection the patient ever had.

I would love to think that this could actually happen, since I find the idea of a doctor telling the nurse various aspects about my body. But I seriously doubt that it would occur.

From a wellness "standpoint" that would have been a fairly logical assumption...though dependent upon a countries medical assessment procedures, particularly in the instance where a patient had express concerns as to response issues....premature ejaculation....inability to maintain a sustained erection...or felt a degree of sexual ineptitude...not discounting medical problems also as an underlying problem. However in most instances there is little likelihood that a female accomplice would even be in attendance....As regards standard physicals I doubt that would have been part of any consultation unless there were a specific reason on the part of a patient to direct /discuss with their doctor prior to proceeding further..

In case of erectile dysfunction, it could be important to indicate in the report if the patient had an erection or not after an injection, I don't see any problem if a nurse write it. Such reports will not be published in Facebook.