I Hate Physical Examination!
Jul. 11th, 2002 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opengoalThink I did pretty well in the computer + typing test in the morning.
Took the physical examination in the afternoon... I've never taken a physical examination before and I hate it! I felt so stupid producing the urine sample and the stool sample. But that wasn't the part I hated most.
I hated the nurse commenting on my pulse rate. When I saw the reading was 98/min., I was actually rather relieved because my pulse rate seemed to have finally become a bit more normal. It was 100+ when measured during a PE lesson 2 years ago, and the guy who took the reading asked me whether I was nervous. Alright, maybe I really was a little nervous. But that was because I've always known that my pulse rate has always been embarrassingly high. And so I thought my pulse rate this time was on the normal side. But clearly the nurse didn't think so. She asked me whether I was nervous (How many times have I been asked this question?) and then said young people should not have such a high pulse rate. Alright, I know I'm unfit. But I almost never needed to see a doctor & I feel fine.
The reflex test made me feel like a defect goods again. The doctor tried to test my knee-jerk reflex. My arms didn't respond at all. My right leg only gave a very slow response after the doctor's second attempt. & honestly, sometimes I do doubt whether that was a reflex or whether my brain willed it to give a response. I tried to look at what the doctor scribbled on the notes but I couldn't see much before the doctor proceeded to examine my chest.
Now, my family doctor never really needed to see my breast when he checked whether my lungs were working properly. I don't understand why the doctors in this hospital need to. I've got this birthmark thing there and him looking at my breast made me feel like a freak.
Took the physical examination in the afternoon... I've never taken a physical examination before and I hate it! I felt so stupid producing the urine sample and the stool sample. But that wasn't the part I hated most.
I hated the nurse commenting on my pulse rate. When I saw the reading was 98/min., I was actually rather relieved because my pulse rate seemed to have finally become a bit more normal. It was 100+ when measured during a PE lesson 2 years ago, and the guy who took the reading asked me whether I was nervous. Alright, maybe I really was a little nervous. But that was because I've always known that my pulse rate has always been embarrassingly high. And so I thought my pulse rate this time was on the normal side. But clearly the nurse didn't think so. She asked me whether I was nervous (How many times have I been asked this question?) and then said young people should not have such a high pulse rate. Alright, I know I'm unfit. But I almost never needed to see a doctor & I feel fine.
The reflex test made me feel like a defect goods again. The doctor tried to test my knee-jerk reflex. My arms didn't respond at all. My right leg only gave a very slow response after the doctor's second attempt. & honestly, sometimes I do doubt whether that was a reflex or whether my brain willed it to give a response. I tried to look at what the doctor scribbled on the notes but I couldn't see much before the doctor proceeded to examine my chest.
Now, my family doctor never really needed to see my breast when he checked whether my lungs were working properly. I don't understand why the doctors in this hospital need to. I've got this birthmark thing there and him looking at my breast made me feel like a freak.