


The doctor then puts on a glove and shoves a finger up the girl’s butt. The doctor asks a few questions and then asks the girl to take off her pants and lay down on her side. Well, late one Saturday, a young girl, around 18 years of age I think, comes in with her parents because of the severe stomach pains that she was experiencing. When I was studying to become a dentist, I was shadowing a doctor in the Emergency Room for a couple of weekends as part of my education in general medicine. The lab results ended up coming back inconclusive. I was totally shocked and embarrassed and did not have any idea how I should react. It hit him right in the face and knocked his glasses off. This caused the doctor’s speculum to come aggressively flying out of my hooha and shooting straight towards him. Then, I started to laugh uncontrollably at my own joke. “Rolling rolling rolling, keep those doggies movin, Rawhide!” I know this sounds like a ridiculous thing to do, but for some reason, it made sense in my head at the time. To break the ice, I started singing the old Rawhide theme song. The doctor was visibly getting more and more nervous- and then I managed to make it so, so much worse. Predictably, the doctor had trouble finding my cervix and the nurse told me to roll my hips up. The male doctor hadn’t performed a smear before, and for some reason, a nurse was called in to witness the procedure. I was still not quite with it by the time my appointment came around in the morning. I hadn’t slept the night before, as I’d been partying hard. I once had to go to the doctor for a routine smear test as a student. In a very abrupt tone, he quickly set the cup on the desk and said, “We are leaving right now.” I didn’t understand what was wrong until later that night when my mom came into my room to explain my mistake to me. The nurse at the desk looked up and nearly spit her coffee out all over my dad when she saw what I had done. I proudly walked up, handed the cup to my dad, and said, “Is this enough or should I go back and scoop up some more from the bowl?” My dad was waiting for me near the front desk of the doctor’s office since we were leaving after turning in the cup. I, being a bit naive, did not know what urine was, so I went into the bathroom and promptly pooped in the cup. My dad hands me the cup and tells me to go to the bathroom, do my business in the cup, and bring it back to him. Everything went great until the doctor told my dad he needed to get a urine sample. When I was about eight or nine years old, I had to get a routine physical in order to participate in sports at my school. Under those circumstances, is it any wonder that doctor’s offices are the source of tons of awkward and embarrassing moments for so many people? Here are 50 unforgettable stories of extremely awkward doctor’s office moments.
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Not to mention, our physical vulnerabilities are on full display for someone we hardly know to inspect and analyze. They’re a place where every single one of us needs to go, yet they are also a place where all the boundaries of normal life disappear. Doctor’s offices are a perfect storm of awkwardness.
