Pediatrician Inappropriate behaviour?

When I was a child and used to go to the pediatrician, I would strip to my underwear. Usually my mother would be in the room or my grandfather, because he would care for us kids at times, but we didn't have a car so he would take us. I remember being so uncomfortable as a young girl because at some point, the doctor would lay me down, examine whatever, and then he would pull my panties down around my ankles. He would then part my legs and inspect my vagina, not too far inside, but he would spread my vagina open and run his fingers around the insides of the folds. Then he would make me stand, still with my panties around my ankles, and make me bend over with my back to him so he could I guess check my spine. He didn't touch me, just looked as I bent over. All while my grandfather or mother was sitting there watching. I've always wondered if anyone else experienced this or if it was just this doctor. I am 48 now. I used to get really worked up before an appointment because I hated this. Has anyone else experienced this as a child? Was this inappropriate or just what was did in those days? This would have been the 70's.

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From your description this sounds totally inappropriate and insensitive. When I examine children of any age I always try to respect their privacy.

As a boy, not sure I would say older than 8 younger than 11, I had a check up. I was undressed to my little tighty whiteys and being examined. He did all the usual stuff, heart, lungs, ears, blood pressure etc. He then asked me to walk across the room. I guess checking the gait. At some point I had gotten a very hard erection and it was obvious as I walked across the exam room and back. Without warning he met me in the middle of the exam room floor and reached into my undies, he checked my testicles, and also checked my hard penis itself, kind of felt like he stroked it up and down. I got harder. He then pulled my undies down and off. He had me bed over, he checked my spine and placed his finger between my ass cheeks and parted them a bit. I guess checking. That was it, but I always felt really helpless during the process. I think it may have started my med fet. My mom and younger sister were also in the room, i was totally exposed, erection and all.

As a physician who has seen thousands of patients, I wonder why I've never seen an erection on a patient? Is it my breath? Or my looks?

If the doctor did "stroke" your penis then that was certainly inappropriate.

As a physician who has seen thousands of patients, I wonder why I've never seen an erection on a patient? Is it my breath? Or my looks?

Do I remember correctly reading that you work in an ER or mainly do time critical work of some kind? If so, that would certainly influence how patients respond. If they are in pain or distress, then that is a situation not conductive to becoming erect ...

There is always some degree of inappropriate behavior going on in the medical field. It is less frequent in emergency rooms and OR's most likely but in normal day to day office hours it happens. With the advent of large corporations controlling Doctors these days however it is not usually seen as things have become more diverse with various ethnic individuals now working in medical office production lines unlike it was years ago when those solo practices were operating.

As a teenager, I was escorted back to the exam room by the nurse who took my vitals and instructed me to undress and wait for the doctor. This meant undressing to my underwear and waiting on the exam table facing the door. After a quick courtesy knock, the door swung open and the doctor entered. I always wondered who could see me sitting there before the doctor closed the door. The exam began with the doctor checking my eyes, ears, nose and throat. Then the doctor would examine my throat. The doctor auscultated my chest and back. Next, I was ordered to lie back in the supine position. The doctor palpated my abdomen and then reached inside the waistband of my underwear. Soon, I was asked to raise my hips and the doctor pulled my underwear off. The doctor examined my genitals and manipulated my legs to test flexibility. Finally, I was ordered down from the table and the doctor performed a hernia exam and scoliosis check.

I think the only inappropriate thing that we do is to laugh at the funny things patients do or say. We only do it in the back room but we do it. Only way to defuse the tension. I have worked in clinics too. I've not always worked in ER. Remember, it you do something weird it's going to provide a laugh for us later. I've been meaning to write a book about my experiences for a long time. I've certainly seen some blackly funny things over the forty years I've worked in medicine.

As a physician who has seen thousands of patients, I wonder why I've never seen an erection on a patient? Is it my breath? Or my looks?

You just don't turn us on. What else can I say? 😃

Do I remember correctly reading that you work in an ER or mainly do time critical work of some kind? If so, that would certainly influence how patients respond. If they are in pain or distress, then that is a situation not conductive to becoming erect ...

That's probably the most reasonable explanation for the lack of boners in your practice.

I never experienced that. I am actually quite thankful. That was very off color of your pediatrician.

This was common place for me and my experience but then again back in the 70's and 80's I think pediatricians had a different mind-set. For me and some of my friends it was very common to have your Mom in the exam room and the doctor examining your genitals. For me I would always get a hard on and as the doctor would examine my penis, I would ejaculate. This happen most of my exams.

"sensei 1980" I have a question for you about your physical examination by a pediatrician when you were a teenager

First what age? :

secondly when your doctor pediatrician performed a scoliosis check after having done a hernia check, were you still naked since you said that he had pulled your brief off to inspect your genitals and manipulate your legs before you were ordered down from the table to stand in front of him ?

And did he instructed you to walk a little in the room in the nude to check your gait ?

An other question to "Boeylin" :you said that you were examined by the doctor in the nude in front of your mother and your younger sister from 8 until 11 age

did you complain to your mother about the presence in the examination room of your sister ?

what was the age of your sister when you were 11 age?

and did you stay also in the room during her examination or was it a famous example of the double standard between girls and boys examination ?

And when it finished at 11 age, was it only the presence of your younger sister or also your mother ?

I don't remember anything inappropriate, but there was very little regard for privacy when I was a child, at least for boys. After I had a cast removed from my leg, I was made to walk down a hallway and back wearing nothing but underpants so two doctors could look at my gait. I was 11 and very shy.

When I reached puberty it seemed like my doctor liked to make sure I got an erection during the genital exam. He would fondle my balls until I was rock hard. Then while still naked he would have stand up for hernia check, spine check, and things like standing on one foot then the other and walking back and forth across the exam area.

Even when I went in for a sore throat, he had me strip to my briefs.

No, nothing inappropriate ever happened at the pediatrician, or any doctor thankfully!

Yep! My pediatrician tried to pull my underwear down one time and I refused, so he basically pried my hands off the underwear and pulled them down anyway.

This is what started my interest because it was traumatic! This loss of control.

I wouldn't say he did anything "wrong" sexually, per se, but forcing me to get examined seems unnecessary.

I was probably 8... To old for problems with Undescended testicles, and too young for testicular cancer, so why force the issue?

They also had a full length mirror on the wall by the exam table so I could see him touching my penis.

I'm assuming this was to distract babies but it still sticks in my mind

I also had my legs spread and panties pull down to my ankles. I was young and he would spread my pussy with barehands also and look inside.

The hernia check began with the onset of puberty. Yes, I was completely naked by this point. The scoliosis exam saw me bent over while the doctor felt down the length of my spine. Sometimes, she would implore me to bend over further before beginning the exam. Only a few times I was told to walk the length of the exam room and back. It was truly awkward having her sum up the exam while I raced to pull up my underwear before she opened the door to leave.