Medical advances.

shmeerk · 10 months

But seriously, get a prostate exam, it could end up saving your life.

anexanhume · 10 months

Anyone who's anybody knows manual prostate stimulation is the best anyway.

krazykarter · 10 months

I didn't know the Monopoly guy became a doctor

nicolinger · 10 months

I feel the same way about pap smears.

LetsJointHands · 10 months

Once again reddit is having a serious conversation that Karl Pilkington brought to life years ago.

AWastrel · 10 months

This comic is a repost of this redditor's comic.

And it's somehow blurrier.

SgtSmackdaddy · 10 months

The prostate is something that needs to be routinely examined and this test is a reliable and virtually free method to evaluate its health. Keep it simple, stupid.

surette · 10 months

One thing about getting older that I'm not looking forward to. :(

hoobityha · 10 months

I find the self-proctology exam to be pleasurable and informative all at once.

Themlizards · 10 months

Best thing to do is make THEM feel awkward and ashamed. Moan uncontrollably during the hole exam.

seashanty · 10 months

From the mind of Karl Pilkington.

Team_Braniel · 10 months

"Well, we could make you drink a somewhat toxic substance, then blast the area just south of your testicles with enough radiation to limit you to only about four of these your whole life, then charge you about double your mortgage...

Or I could stick my finger up your ass for about 30 seconds."

JayKaos · 10 months

All of these machines cost exorbitant amounts of money to even use, let alone develop in the first place, money which will of course be charged to you. Wouldn't you rather some minor discomfort?

Incoherentrant · 10 months

If you just start sticking small things up your ass at younger ages, and slowly advance to larger things as you grow older, by the time you need a prostate exam you will be completely prepared for it and/or enjoy it.

Hemmerly · 10 months

My Dad had always complained about prostate exams. Literally the only thing I can ever remember my Dad complaining about. When I was 20 my Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and on a trip home I went along with him to the doctor before treatment began to better understand what was being explained. My Dad isn't the sharpest tool in the shed so both he and my Mom were quite nervous about what was going to be happening. My Dad and I are waiting in the office and in walks a man who is easily 6'4" about 300+ pounds. I have never in my life seen a larger set of fingers than on the monster of a man that was my Dad's proctologist. I've never felt more sorry for my father than that moment.

Dad also responded beautifully to treatment and it was dealt with promptly for those wondering. Still goes to that same proctologist though. When the day comes for me I will certainly go around the area meeting doctors first to find tiny fingers.

Disco_Drew · 10 months

As someone who has endured a barium enema, prostate exam doesn't scare me. It just makes me think really hard about complaining about stomach issues.

Link345 · 10 months

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Kinda_Gets_it · 10 months

I think this guy wishes they had more technology for his prostate!

fishn · 10 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypphWN1eKVU

teddy123 · 10 months

An old saying that's taught in med school:

"There are only 2 reasons not to do a rectal exam:

The patient doesn't have a rectum.
The doc doesn't have any fingers. "

71NZ · 10 months

As a woman who needs a yearly GYN appointment I have no sympathy for any men regarding this. As least theres no duck beak spreading the eagle open.

Bongpig · 10 months

Thankfully medicine has advanced in that area. A blood test can now be done to test for prostate cancer.

However I do believe there are still times when a feel is the best way

emergdoc · 10 months

Look. I had one today. I think my third. And I have done hundreds in my life. Is it a great test? No. Is it a cheap and easy test? Yes. Is it no where near as painful or invasive as a speculum exam (or pap test) in a woman? Yes. Look at your average poop. Is it larger in diameter than the average doctor's fingers? Yes. Guys, get over it.

NowISeeTheFunnySide · 10 months

Didn't I just see this the other day, or was I time traveling again?

Dirqala · 10 months

Nothing wrong with a little tickle of the prostate.

PrivateBytes · 10 months

I am in this process of prepping for a colonoscopy tomorrow. Somehow this thread is making me feel better.

kueyen · 10 months

The original post is here.

Upvotes go to DeathStarDriveBy, people.

McDylan · 10 months

I trust a person to check my prostate more than a robot that will malfunction and tear open my ass

weemee · 10 months

My two brother in laws and I have the same female doctor who as part of her yearly physicals will handle our testicles. We call her "The Juggler".

greenvelvetcake · 10 months

Meanwhile, every woman who has ever gone to a gynecologist is rolling her eyes.

DeadlyLittleMiho · 10 months

I would just like to say, this is nothing compared to a woman's ANNUAL check up. We have this inserted into our vaginas. It is then opened up so that our doctor can swab our vaginal wall with a q-tip. EVERY. DAMN. YEAR.

ungr8ful_biscuit · 10 months

Wait... they use their finger to do that? My doctor told me the average finger is too short...

sfitzer · 10 months

I do this very thing when my wife watches Glee. Somehow it makes me feel normal.

banang · 10 months

hehe, how true how true.

the reason why doctors still do the manual (they call it "digital", get it?) examination is simply because it's cheap and fast. all the examples the artist brought up (using machines or time and money consuming laboratory tests) are exensive and/or take too long time.

of course your prostate size can be measured by a CAT-scan or echo, but because they take time and money, they are only neccessary when there is reason to believe something is wrong with it.

the manual examination is done for screening. they don't know if you have something or not. instead of letting you go through a long test procedure, they just do a quick test and you can go after a few seconds.

Aerogingh_434 · 10 months

Moral of the story? Never trust the Pringles Man.

blastfemur · 10 months

Be sure to know that although the doctors like to represent prostate cancer as a slow-growing, let's-wait-and-see kind of cancer, there is also a fast-growing, very aggressive type of prostate cancer that can metastasize throughout your body within months and can kill you within a year of diagnosis.

They may tell you that the odds of your cancer being that type are only 20% or some similar "negligible" number, but if you happen to be in that smaller percentage you may seriously regret every day that you put off a definitive diagnosis and treatment.

If your doctor suspects that you have prostate cancer and then tells you to come back in six months and have it checked again, my family's experience would recommend that you demand a biopsy that very day and fuck the "let's-wait-and-see" approach.

podcastaddict · 10 months

That's just one of the many small ways by which The System reminds you who is boss.

ruetheworld · 9 months

At least it's just one finger. Us ladies get a freakin' car jack up in our space.

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