I had an anal fissure about 10 years ago, and the specialist my then-primary sent me to was an attractive woman. When she did her exam, she had two assistants- one female and one male- back there with her. I will say it was a strange experience to have an attractive woman, with whom I was not having any romantic relationship, lube up a finger and slide it up my ass.
These days, my primary is a guy, and we know each other socially- we see each other a couple times a year at neighborhood cocktail parties, and such- and it’s a little weirder. Only because of the social aspect.
I haven’t had a rectal exam yet (though I suppose it’s getting to be about time,) but I have had a female doctor palpate/manipulate/examine a testicle.
I don’t think gender plays a significant role in how uncomfortable that is.
Funny story about a guy I knew who went to a female doctor who gave him a digital rectal exam. She says, “You are very tense. Is that because I’m a woman?” He answers, “No, I get tense whenever anybody does that.”
My first prostate exam was performed by a doctor who was ’
[ul][li]female []apparently about sixteen years old []at least ten and a half months pregnant. [/ul]Yes, I know she is used to it. I’m not, dammit.[/li]
OTOH, I’ve had the same thing done by men since, and it’s no better when Dr. Handupthebutt has hair in his ears.
Yep. Years ago I had a medical issue with severe gut pain and made an appointment to go see a doctor after stoically waiting a couple of days too long to do so. First doctor male goes exploring> sent to the ER because he thinks I’ve burst my appendix and ER doctor, male, decides to launch his own expedition > then THIRD doctor, female, comes over and wants entry. At this point I’m protesting weakly that I’ve already been probed more than once but she overrides me and says " hey, at least I have smaller fingers than they do." She was at least right about that.
A little later a FOURTH doctor, female, comes over to talk to me wearing rubber gloves and I flinch and comment on my by that point all too thorough examination of that area of my anatomy. Turns out she was just very germ conscious, but it gave me a scare :p.
I work with a group of men who teach the rectal exam to medical and nursing students, so that they know how to perform the exam without hurting their patients. We have all experienced hundreds of these painless exams, that take about 10 seconds. We haven’t noticed any difference between rectal exams performed by either men or women.
I think this was a short video on Funny or Die?
Doctor: “Don’t worry, it’s completely normal to get an erection during a prostate exam.”
Patient: “Um … I don’t have an erection.”
Doctor: “I wasn’t talking about you.”
Awkward situations that can be entirely avoided!
My doctor is a sexy black-haired Polish woman my own age (early 40s). A real no-nonsense type. She always approaches the rectal-exam part of my yearly physical with a statement like, “Sorry to have to do this, but…” or “There’s nothing neutral about what I’m about to do to you…” Meanwhile, I secretly like the exam. I’m straight, BTW. It might be a latent female-dominance thing. I don’t know. I DO know that if it was a male doctor, it wouldn’t be exciting to me at all.
So, I was admitted to the Cleveland Clinic back in the mid-80’s after experiencing an acute medical problem involving my genitalia mid-way through my pathophysiology final exam. I won’t go into detail about my symptoms, but it was something that was causing me great anxiety, reflecting on possible diagnoses. My train of thought was interrupted when the grand rounds team entered my room: a gruff looking middle-aged male attending and four young residents—one guy and three beautiful females (I’m not kidding).
They discussed my case for a minute or two, then the attending asked if they could examine my naughty bits, front and back (he used different terminology, of course). Well, I kind of wish I’d asked them to come back when I wasn’t filled with so much “pent up anxiety”, but, accommodating person that I am, I gave permission for the medical groping to commence.
I stood up and the attending pulled up my gown, exposing my manliness to the four baby-docs to behold. As beautiful resident #1 bent down to examine, I closed my eyes and used all my powers of mental disassociation to prevent an embarrassing genital situation from arising. She probed, plied and palpated for what seemed like eternity, but I succeeded in keeping things relaxed and decidedly un-stiff. Call me Mr. Cool. Then, it was beautiful resident #2’s turn. I broke out in a cold sweat, but, again, my genitalia did not throw me under the bus. Whew. Then, it was resident #3’s turn (the dude) to go all touchy-feely on me. *Please God, **don’t *let anything stir down there now (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Success. *Thank you, God…I promise to go back to church one of these days *(I lied). Finally, it was beautiful resident #4’s turn at bat. Did I mention she looked like Kathy Ireland (an 80’s hottie)?
Schwing! :eek:
She said, “whoopsie-daisy” (really, she did), and I said, “I’m really sorry about that”. That’s the last thing I remember about my stay at the Cleveland Clinic. They diagnosed me properly and a routine surgical procedure kept me alive. I just died from embarrassment.
I’ve only had males and prefer it that way. The last time it happened the doc asked if 6 med students could watch. If it anything I would have been fine with it, but I declined.
Do most people (men) really find the rectal exam that traumatic? For me, it’s really not a big deal. Unlike some (I’m talking about our new member Caranport) I don’t actually *look forward *to the exam, but I don’t find it uncomfortable or something to be dreaded.
At my last checkup, I had the dubious pleasure of a prostate exam. My doctor (a woman) kept apologizing. I told her that it was my ass in her face, so I felt that I should be the one apologizing.
