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rectal exam
Why is that rectal exams are so over used nowadays? It seems like that for any emergency visit pertaing to the abdominal to chest region, they do a rectal exam. they say they have to check and make sure that this is not one of the factors of the problem. Especially you men or boys. If they made going to the doctors less mortifying, more men wouldn't be reluctant to go get a physical.
What's the reason for it? Are there other procedures instead? If the person had sever anal fissures, then what would they do?
What's the reason for it? Are there other procedures instead? If the person had sever anal fissures, then what would they do?
i don't know why, but it feels like your doctor had just violated you. Whether it's for medical reasons or not. If someone feels violated nothing is not going change their feeling regardless whether the procedure was for our own good or not. You gotta come up with a more convincing reason than that. I think in the, public's eye, that rectal exams can be traumatizing to some that it has long term effects because of the fact that we grew up to understand that our rear end is not to be exposed and/or touched in anyway. it's a big dark secret. The doctor who did it to my girlfriend when she was a teen ager and as child, hurt her rectum. She still remembers it but not only that, she became a medical fetish fanatic. She desires anything anal or rectal. I've seen men who go for prostate procedures end up being feministic almost like prisoners get when they've been raped so many times that they become femnen.
As to the above post: "This is your brain on drugs."
The reason in the United States stems from tort actions against physicians, case law known as stare decisis, and what is known in common law as "the doctrine of the reasonable and prudent man".
Hospital bottom-feeder, among the most highly paid of all species of bottom-feeders, in conjunction with specialists who are both bottom-feeders and chancre-mechanics, have developed standardized examination protocols. This took place after the first 22 million dollar judgement against the hospital by the weeping blond twenty-two year old widow of the overweight sixty-nine year old alcoholic who died because he never had a protological exam.
Rectal exams are unnecessarily performed for the same reason hundreds of thousands of x-rays are unnecessarily taken.
The one patient in a thousand who has a problem and walks out of that office/hospital without an exam, and then finds out he has (god forbid) a malignancy will find a bottom-feeder and have the hospital and the physician, and the physician's mistress, for lunch.
The answer is simple. CYA. Don't ask what the letters stand for.
While a rectal exam is uncomfortable from a patient's standpoint, it is easily performed, and provides a rock-hard defense against malpractice.
Is this a bad idea?
One side of me says "yes", and the other side says "no."
Probably the protocol for such examinations dos, in the long run save lives.
As for the individual patient all you have to do is say "no".
I always refuse them.
The reason in the United States stems from tort actions against physicians, case law known as stare decisis, and what is known in common law as "the doctrine of the reasonable and prudent man".
Hospital bottom-feeder, among the most highly paid of all species of bottom-feeders, in conjunction with specialists who are both bottom-feeders and chancre-mechanics, have developed standardized examination protocols. This took place after the first 22 million dollar judgement against the hospital by the weeping blond twenty-two year old widow of the overweight sixty-nine year old alcoholic who died because he never had a protological exam.
Rectal exams are unnecessarily performed for the same reason hundreds of thousands of x-rays are unnecessarily taken.
The one patient in a thousand who has a problem and walks out of that office/hospital without an exam, and then finds out he has (god forbid) a malignancy will find a bottom-feeder and have the hospital and the physician, and the physician's mistress, for lunch.
The answer is simple. CYA. Don't ask what the letters stand for.
While a rectal exam is uncomfortable from a patient's standpoint, it is easily performed, and provides a rock-hard defense against malpractice.
Is this a bad idea?
One side of me says "yes", and the other side says "no."
Probably the protocol for such examinations dos, in the long run save lives.
As for the individual patient all you have to do is say "no".
I always refuse them.
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Hello,
Anal examination is a must for any patient who presents with acute surgical abdomen. It gives an idea of pelvic collections and masses, apart from local pathology of the ano rectum.
Anal fissures are diagnosed by local examination and perrectal examination.Without examination,a confirmatory diagnosis cannot be made.
Hope it helps.Take care and regards.
Anal examination is a must for any patient who presents with acute surgical abdomen. It gives an idea of pelvic collections and masses, apart from local pathology of the ano rectum.
Anal fissures are diagnosed by local examination and perrectal examination.Without examination,a confirmatory diagnosis cannot be made.
Hope it helps.Take care and regards.
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