--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcg...@...> wrote: > > Here's my complaint: > > When I turned 50 several years ago my doctor prescribed that I have a > colonoscopy done. Apparently, at that age, it's good to have it > checked. Whatever. > > Boy, the trouble you have to go through: not only fast the night > before but take this god-awful stuff that makes you poo-poo out every > last drop of fecal matter so that those doing the exam have clear > sailing when looking to see what's up in there. > > Well, thankfully, they knock you out with one of those wonderful > drugs that make you feel that chemicals are oh-so-much-better than > your last meditation so you don't feel that huge plastic thing they > shove up your butt to do the exam. > > My complaint is that while they've got you under and your goddamn > sphincter is expanded to accomodate the plastic doo-hickey you'd > think they'd kill two birds with one stone! > > Check my goddamn prostate while you're up there, won't you buddy? > > If you don't I will, on my next visit to my GP, have to suffer > through the doctor sticking his plastic-gloved middle finger up there > WHILE I DON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF DRUGS and have to be humiliated > bent over on his exam table. I've had to go through that twice > before with doctors and, no, sorry, I can't "just try and relax" > those particular muscles once every 15 years so you can feel around. > > Why it isn't standard practise to do the prostate exam at the same > time as a colonoscopy I'll never know! > > "Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people > scream." -- Bren telling Juno while she can't have her spinal tap > just yet. From "Juno" >
Different job descriptions. Better luck double dipping and having an upper endoscopy when you have the colonoscopy. Have a woman doctor do the DRE, we have smaller hands so it is more comfortable. :)
