School Medicals

[Gothic]

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Remember the drop and cough medicals at primary school in the mid 70's, plus the nit nurse, eye tests, hearing tests and dental examinations.

[Trickyvee]

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I remember the hearing test with the big red and blue headphones and the dentist who kept the little mirror in some milky coloured liquid that tasted disgusting. Nit nurse always came in September at the start of the school year and really yanked at your hair! I used to get bad cold sores as a kid - huge ones that went right over my chin and they always seemed to burst forth in the autumn when I had to see the nurse. She always looked alarmed when I tipped up with my annual scabby gob and scribbled down lots of notes, but nothing ever came of it.

[Danny]

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ROFLMAO

No Teejay - maybe he had the same undies but I didn't like to ask

[Teejay]

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Cos of lining up in alphabetical order I always ended up behind the class scruff who gave every appearance of regularly wiping his backside on all areas of his underpants and maybe waving them at the washing machine once every six months - was he bothered? no chance!

Weird thing is he's a medic himself now and I had a work physical not too long ago from him - thankfully no 'cough please'

Did he have the same pants on?

[sixtyten]

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So Thatcher wasn't all bad then.

[Yorkieuk]

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I remember them well in the early 1970s. We had them at about 14 and again at 16. Your parents were invited too. About 3 ladas at a time were called out of class to sit outside the medical room. Inside one lad was getting undressed down to underpants behind a screen while the other was being examined.

The Dr always seemed to be an old man but without fail you would have to pull your pants down whilst he had a good feel of the balls and also pulled the foreskin back in boys that were not circumcised. Spent ages looking at your feet too.

Think they were abolished as part of Thatcher's cost cutting excercises!

[Danny]

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Cos of lining up in alphabetical order I always ended up behind the class scruff who gave every appearance of regularly wiping his backside on all areas of his underpants and maybe waving them at the washing machine once every six months - was he bothered? no chance!

Weird thing is he's a medic himself now and I had a work physical not too long ago from him - thankfully no 'cough please'

[ziggy1a1]

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I remember the ol' cough and drop examination. As the lads in front of you came out of the examination room they'd tell you that the nurse/ doctor doing it was " a right cracker" then your teenage mind would get working with the obvious result in the trouser department!!!!!!!!
Only to find when you walked in that she was about 70 and looked like the back of a bus!!!!!
Thankfully all the....erm.....enthusiasm that you'd built up drained away instantly

[Marine Boy]

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Lol! Just for the record, at these medicals (about 6 and 13 years old), I wasn't asked to cough. It was more of a quick look, though other friends claimed to have had a prod. Not nice.

[rossobantam]

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Mm, well the one I referred to would have been around 1975 so yeah, maybe the more intimate variety just got phased out.

Hey. I forecast a very short thread!

yeh, I was 9yrs old in 1975, and I don't remember the 'cough please' examination..but then again they wouldn't have 'dropped' by then I suppose

[Derekflint]

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From the people that brought you memories of white dog poo and Caramac, comes...

Hand moving in - Cough!

Just what was the point in turning your head? If the doctor had a problem with physical contact, maybe he should have found a job that didn't involve grabbing the old hanging basket of fun!

[kazboot]

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I'm about the same age as you MB and the boys never mentioned any such thorough examinations!

Being a girl I'm pleased to say we certainly had nothing too traumatising happen.

[zargon]

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I had one mid 70s - cough and drop ! They weighed you as I recall as well ...

[Marine Boy]

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Mm, well the one I referred to would have been around 1975 so yeah, maybe the more intimate variety just got phased out.

Hey. I forecast a very short thread!

[HG]

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I can't ever remember having a medical where you got your tackle inspected in school. Must have been phased out sometime in the late 70's/ early 80's.