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Subject: Re: Last house visit, your age and RT question.

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RickT

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Date Posted: Sunday, October 13, 2013, 10:44: pm
In reply to: Richard 's message, "Last house visit, your age and RT question." on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 08:26: pm

My mother took my temperature rectally until I was 13, but I never recall the doctor taking my temperature on a house call. My mother would take it prior to the doctor's arrival and simply tell him what it was with of course the qualifier of "rectally" at the end.

It looks like the doctor's job was not to take temperatures but to give you a shot of antibiotics which of course always went into your bottom.

The last time I remember the doctors coming over was when I was around 14 years old. I was in bed in my underpants only as I was burning up with a fever of almost 104 (orally at this age) Doctor pulled the sheets back asked my to roll over and it was undies down to my knees while he loaded up the syringe. It hurt so bad I laid there about a minute while he gave my mother further instructions and told me he would be back in 3 days if the fever didn't break. Lucky for me the fever broke.

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Jim
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Date Posted: Thursday, November 07, 2013, 05:35: pm

I was around 5-6 y/o the last time our family doctor made a house call. I had a high fever and some congestion. I don't remember how he took my temperature. The parts I remember: He asked me questions, shined a light in my eyes and down my throat, took my pulse, felt my glands, opened my PJ shirt, thumped my chest. Then he poked around on my chest with his stethoscope to check my heart and lungs. When he was done with me, he consulted with Mom and told her which medicines to give me.

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