this afternoon we had another clinical exercise: taking a sexual history. i was all prepared for my 20 something girl with a strange rash, my 70 year old with prostate cancer with bone mets, my 40 year old man with a plethora of STDs.

i didn’t get any of those, of course, and walked into the lab to meet my mock patient, a teenager (braces and all), who asked me if i could tell him “what was wrong with him”.

oh sure.

so… he ends up telling me that he got drunk at a party and woke up in bed with a guy. his butt was hurting, so he assumed that he had sex with this guy. to top it all off, it now burns when he pees and he’s got bloody…ahem…stools and such.

so… he needs STD testing and whatnot to make sure he doesn’t give his girlfriend (of one year) anything. lovely.

there’s more to the story… but i guess you’d have to be there.

this saturday is pelvic/rectal day. we get some people to volunteer to be poked and probed for a whole day in the name of medical education. oh joy.

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