After reading this will any one laugh at Doctors doing rectal exams on young people?

Https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-3-dies-bowel-cancer-doctors-said-young-210357506.html

The person in this article had symptoms leading to a misdiagnosis of celiac disease.

... had been feeling unwell for months — she was losing weight, feeling bloated, constipated and discovered blood in her stool.

It was that misdiagnosis, not a lack of rectal exams in asymptomatic young people, that led to her death.

The article doesn't support what you appear to be suggesting in the title of your thread.

People generating false, fake, deviant rumors are not welcome here.

Its a very sad unfortunate loss.

Doctors dont have a crystal ball and rely on a combination of symptoms as well as statistics. Because of that patients age it is rare that her symptons were due to that type of cancer.

With the pressure drs face with the insurance companies some drs go with the " lets wait and see " approach .

Now on the other side of this there is also a patients responsibility to be their own advocate . Drs make mistakes , they rush, they poo poo your concerns etc . If you dont feel that your dr is taking you seriously or that your symptoms just dont seem to be improving or getting worse you need to you need to state your case stronger . Its your body and you have the right to request/ insist on further examination or tests.

Yea but my point is that young people rarely get rectal exams probably because doctors assume they can't get rectal or colon cancer. Obviously lots do. I'm glad my Dr always did. He said he was checking bowels, checking for penwirms and other things I can't remember. May be hemorrhoid s too

Sorry to burst your bubble but your point is foolish . If dr checked for every illness, ailment, and disease that is a rare occurrence based on age or any other non risk factor it would be wastefully time consuming, cost consuming and simply unwarranted.

I would be leery of a test happy .

Come on now, get real .

I had a Cousin who died of this terrible disease at age 41.

She had blood in her stool. In the absence of hemmorhoids, her dr should have got a stool sample.

They didn't do any tests or an exam. They ASSumed it was celiac. Her family should sue.