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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m amazed at the number of parents just saying their kid should skip a preventative medical exam because he’s uncomfortable.  Now is exactly the time to get used to the fact that preventative care is important, quick, and work a few seconds of embarrassment.

As for finding a male pediatrician, there aren’t that many around any more and about half of all med school students are women she he should get used to the fact that a woman might be his doctor.  I stuck with the old, retiring male doctor in my kids pediatrician’s practice thinking it would save my sons from embarrassment and I very much regret it. He completely failed to follow up on some irregular test results and basically was providing very poor care.  The better approach would have been to teach my son that doctors are doctors and you should consider yourself lucky to have access to a good one.  [/quote]

Exactly this. Testicular cancer is scarily common in adolescent boys (a friend of a friend actually died from it in high school), hernias are fairly common as well if the boy plays sports, and if the boy isn't circumsized, there's a whole host of foreskin issues that are really common in that age range as well. That area need to be checked. Skipping that part of the exam because it causes thirty seconds of embarrassment is about as ridiculous as a doctor skipping an examination of the eyes or ears, they're just body parts, that's the whole purpose of a physical.

And yes, I see how a female pediatrician doing the exam could be more embarrassing than a male doctor doing the exam, but a doctor is a doctor, it's literally her job. Any doctor that does physicals probably sees like ten penises a day, even if they're a woman. He doesn't have anything she hasn't seen before.[/quote]

Not to mention that previously "descended" testicles can become rectractile later in life and pose yet a higher testicular cancer risk.[/quote]

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