I already had 'tertiary screening' at the airport once and I promptly forgot all the lines from 'Fletch' I had intended to use. Bloody humiliating.

Are you using the whole fist there, doc?

just relax is what the doctor tells Fletch when he asks if the doc is using his whole fist

The best cinematic prostate exam ever.


Well, I think we've got that topic covered.

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That'll make ya pucker.

so you can get a second opinion.

he has one hand on each shoulder . . .

and bend over with my hands on the table.

I asked him where I should put my pants.

He said...over there, next to mine.

Then, there's the Fletch clip.

Hope you are well too.

But the DRE (digital rectal exam), I do in clinic takes about ten seconds, tops.

In that time, I can examine the prostate gland, and assess the rectum for hemorrhoids, polyps, etc.

I try to keep my patients' discomfort to a minimum.

probably less, I was not happy the whole time lol

Then he rendered his verdict, which I didn't quite believe at first. But..hey....he's the urologist, not a FP physician.

Hope you're all good, Aristus.

on the left side. He said it was "boggy"...didn't feel like the rest. He put me on a 6 week course of antibiotics in case it is simple inflammation due to an infection. If the boggy spot is still there after 6 weeks, we have to discuss the possibility of either an MRI or a biopsy.

My PSA is extremely low, so I'm not sure why he is being so aggressive, but he's the doc so I will do what he says.

Because it's not very reliable when it comes to assessing risks for prostate cancer. But conventional wisdom says basically: "yeah, go ahead and order a PSA. As long as you do the digital rectal exam too, you'll be all right."

Always make sure your provider orders the PSA and draws your blood for it before doing the DRE. If you draw the blood after palpation of the prostate, it can give you a false-positive on the PSA.

Did your doc ever serve time?

THEN you can complain

It was no bueno.

it's just that when guys complain about the finger in the ass, us gals think: oh boo fucking hoo

yes indeed

I understand your point, and from my perspective, digital rectal exams are no big deal, the way MOST doctors do them. I've had them a million times.

This guy yesterday though was like nothing I've experienced. Being a urologist, I guess he's going to be the doc that does the "best job", so once the finger is in, he pushed as hard as he could against the prostate. Then he dragged his finger across the prostate using this same pressure. Then, he found this boggy spot, and started going at it like a freaking machine gun, poking it very hard, for well over a minute. He was pushing so goddamn hard that now I'm leaking profusely out of the front end, so to speak, onto my pants which are down around my ankles. Seriously, I have an incredible pain tolerance, but this was almost too much. I'm trying to psyche myself out...ok....I'll breathe through my mouth and he'll be out of there in a second. Well, he stayed in there lol.

It wasn't the pain of the finger...that's minimal and about a one on the pain scale. It was the pain I was feeling in my lower abdomen because of all the pressure.

I've had a lot of procedures done on me, including stitches and other minor surgeries where the novocaine just didn't take, and just told them to proceed anyway. But this shit yesterday was ridiculous. I was so internally sore after it that I am still not walking upright today. In fact, I was thinking about it this morning, and the more I ponder it, the more I think that something wasn't quite right about that exam.

and decided that my prostate was worthy of discussion, a training aid. So the students took turns checking it and talking about what they perceived.

I did consent to this beforehand, but I'm not sure my consent would be classified as "enthusiastic consent".

Ah, well, anything for science.

I was awake and watched on the screen as they, the medical team, explored brave new worlds and went where no man, literally, has gone before.

As a doctor that has to do rectal exams frequently.....



“I’m sorry...I’m so, so, sorry”

How long do your exams take? And how hard do probe the prostate? Honest question...thanks.

A). As long as it takes
B). As hard as I need to