# Checking my bottom? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 6, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575 "2012-08-06T02:04:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Perderabo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Perderabo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perderabo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/1 "2012-08-06T02:04:20Z")
OK, I had a mini-stroke aka TIA. So I was the hospital and the nurse came to run some tests. She had me lay on my side and used a stethoscope on my back, and said she was “checking my lungs”. Then she pulled my underware open and said she was “checking my bottom”. I don’t remember any other nurse ever doing that. Is there a valid reason for that? Mind you, I don’t really object. 😉 But I wonder why she did that. Lots of other nurses check my lungs while I was there. Only she “checked my bottom”. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/2 "2012-08-06T03:15:32Z")
Medical advice is best suited for IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/3 "2012-08-06T03:26:50Z")
Possibly a very red, flushed bottom might be a clinical symptom of something? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/4 "2012-08-06T04:22:31Z")
> [@Perderabo](#): > > So I was the hospital and the nurse came to run some tests. Then she pulled my underware open and said she was “checking my bottom”. I don’t remember any other nurse ever doing that. Is there a valid reason for that? But I wonder why she did that. Only she “checked my bottom”. Did she just pull your underwear open and peer inside? 😕 What did she do, exactly? Was anything, eh, inserted? And was she hot? Details, man, we need details! ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/5 "2012-08-06T04:24:23Z")
> [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Possibly a very red, flushed bottom might be a clinical symptom of something? Laziness? _I keed, I keed…_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/6 "2012-08-06T04:26:42Z")
Sounds like you’ve been watching way too much porn. (That could explain why you have only 366 posts since 1999.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/7 "2012-08-06T05:13:59Z")
Wait, she checked your bottom with a stethoscope? Or just looked at it? Or palpated it? Or, as already inquired above, poked something in? ---
**Author:** ![Perderabo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Perderabo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perderabo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/8 "2012-08-06T05:44:14Z")
Well, I don’t have eyes in the back of my head so I have to go by what I felt. I felt my underwear being pulled open. I assume that this was to look at my ass. However I cannot confirm that she looked. Nothing was inserted up my rectum. I felt her sethoscope on my back, but not on my ass. I would say she was attractive, not “hot” really. And I did not request any advice, I was simply seeking knowledge. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/9 "2012-08-06T05:50:15Z")
> [@Perderabo](#): > > I would say she was attractive, not “hot” really. I guess she was just checking if your ass was “hot”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![OleOneEye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f14d63/32.png) [@OleOneEye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OleOneEye)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/10 "2012-08-06T05:53:43Z")
Did she have reason to believe you had shit yourself? (Why do I have the feeling our chain is being yanked here?) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/11 "2012-08-06T06:12:22Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#): > > Did she have reason to believe you had shit yourself? Yeah, had you just farted or something? ---
**Author:** ![green2gold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4bbf92/32.png) [@green2gold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green2gold)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/12 "2012-08-06T07:04:57Z")
when you get into hospital you get checked for a pressure sore. they are most commonly found on the sacrum. if you have one when you come to the hospital we get reimbursed for treating it. if you don’t, or you have one but it isn’t documented on admission, then the hospital doesn’t get reimbursed. so nurses get told to check everyone’s ass. usually it doesn’t need to be announced because hospital gowns are not good at protecting your modesty. the other nurses probably checked your butt but were more discrete. there is nothing less sexy than a hospital and you are dealing with people who see more ‘stuff’ than hookers and we aren’t being paid to pretend to be impressed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gunnergoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@gunnergoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gunnergoz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/13 "2012-08-06T07:09:54Z")
What green2gold said. Looking for poop or sores would be a good guess, just for the initial records of the admission. ---
**Author:** ![Perderabo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Perderabo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perderabo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2012, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/checking-my-bottom/630575/14 "2012-08-06T09:28:45Z")
> [@green2gold](#): > > when you get into hospital you get checked for a pressure sore. Thank you, green2gold! 🙂 It was nice to actually get an answer to my question!