I’m a senior in high school and had my sports exam at the gym at our school, along with about 125 male athletes on a tuesday evening. Us guys stripped to our shorts in the locker room and came into the gym and lined up against the wall.
Each guy had his vitals taken, blood pressure, temperature, weight & height by a nurse. Then we lined up to see the doctor. The doctor was set up in the corner of the gym, not in a room or with any partition or drapes for privacy. The doctor looked at out eyes, ears, asked a questions. Then we were asked to remove our shorts and he did a hernia check. Finally he did a full body skin check for skin abnomalites like rashes or sores. All in view of all the other guys in line and anybody in the gym.
The problem us guys had with this was the openess in which the hernia and skin checks were done. The principal and vice principal, a female amd male, were present in the gym during the physical. The P.E. instructors came into the gym, 2 males, 1 female. A representative of the HMO that insures the school district, a female, was present. Not to mention the 4 nurses.
(STORY BY: Sheppard)
