Not alone during your prostate exam.

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I know that is what everyone says, but I had my first long before 40, a friend of mine had it at 18 during his college physical, and I know others who had their first in their 20s.
 
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Why would you ever, as an adult, take a friend or family member into the consultation room with you??

Someone to talk to while waiting?
Because you are nervous and having someone there with you is comforting?
Showing off?
All of the above?

Of course, there is a point in a young man's life when you are not allowed to be in there alone.
 

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I think once you get out of your teen years your old enough to deal with the doctor on your own. If your 18 and the doctor wants to examine your prostate there better be a medical reason beyond just checking. If your wife or significant other is with you my Doctor has always asked them to leave, explaining what he is going to do.

When I have escorted one of my grandparents to the Doctor I took them back to the exam and stayed until the Doctor got there. AT that point I would step outside and return when the doctor wanted someone to hear his instructions and make sure they understand them. I cant imagine being in the room if they were doing a pelvic exam on my mother or grandmother. I cant think the Doctor would consider it either unless I was a medical professional they were familiar with.
 

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Someone to talk to while waiting?
Because you are nervous and having someone there with you is comforting?
Showing off?
All of the above?

Of course, there is a point in a young man's life when you are not allowed to be in there alone.

Unless the State of New Jersey, has separate Patient privacy laws than NY; and the rest of the country. The H.I.P.A rules would apply to protect your health confidentiality . The only exception is for Pediatric medicine, where a parent or guardian often is in the same room as the patient. Even so at a certain age the Dr. would probably ask a parent to step outside, if the exam was of a certain type

Long story short, you have someone with you, you get into position; and the Dr. says, that you have visible anal tearing; and that it needs to be addressed. The person in the room, would now have private information about you; and you could possible cause the medical person legal grief. Not to mention that the person / friend / Dad, may get an indication on how you received the tearing.

The exceptions being that the patient does not speak English and that there are no medical interpreters available.

Wank stories are cool; but they take a back seat to common sense and legality
 

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I had it done once with my G/F in the room. Wanted to discuss a couple issues that I might forget.

DR. gave us the option of her stepping out. Said I did not care one way or the other.

My DR. is a funny country boy and he said "I can perform in front of an audience"
I dropped trousers and he did the deed.
 

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I'm in my thirties and have never had a prostate exam. I don't intend to until a doctor tells me that I should consider it. But I just don't understand why you would have one long before your 40's. You say you know other people who say the same thing happened to them. Do all of you go to the same doctor?

Getting a procedure with someone else in the room, someone who is not your doctor or an assistant in some capacity, means that your patient information is not necessarily protected by H.I.P.P.A.. It probably doesn't matter if its a family member in most cases, but its weird.

I did have to go to a urologist when I was 17 because I had a testicular torsion. It was my first time seeing a specialist, and I was nervous and didn't know enough medically to be able to say yes or no to any suggestions he might have. My mother, who was a registered nurse, came with me and was in the exam room with us. During the exam I stood behind a curtain, I didn't want my mother to see that part, but I was glad to have her there to help me make the decisions I had to make based on the exam and discussion with the urologist. Thinking about it now, it does seem really awkward, but so what.