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Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Norman [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009, 11:18: am In reply to: Kelly 's message, "Small Town Doctor" on Monday, August 03, 2009, 04:26: pm The glass thermometer has been used for ages. I read on a news flash not too long ago about a new fill media will be used to replace mercury in glass fever thermometers that is non-toxic to the environment and patient. It is different from the ones currently out there. The thermometer is supposed to be competitively priced with the cheap electronic thermometers and its appearance is similar to the traditional mercury fill thermometers, with a white line along one side, triangular in cross section, and tapered tip at the non-entry end. So as not to be confused with the mercury fill thermometer as these thermometers too have a silver colored fill media they are longer and have uniform thickness, I think they said 5.X long and a lot thicker than the common fever thermometer. Oral and rectal versions are available. According to the pictures that I saw in a link the oral has a long tip and the rectal has a stubby tip. There was a thought that local health departments and environmental agencies would offer to swap out each old thermometer with both an oral and rectal version of the thermometer. There will be separate Fahrenheit and Centigrade types for easier reading but no combinations. The main disadvantage is that one physical property of the new fill media is that it is inferior to mercury in that these new thermometers take I believe 4.5 minutes orally to register as opposed to no longer than 2 or 3 minutes for a mercury fill thermometer. In connection to this thread, I cannot imagine certain kids being able to sit down and holding a glass object in their mouths that long without taking it out, or worse having a mishap. The rectal temperature would eliminate that possibility as well as taking it orally with an electronic thermometer. In the case where an oral temperature is not an option with the new thermometer, the the alternative means of taking a temperature would be up to the parent or physician. I would think that the physician would take the easy way out and continue using the $1K electronic thermometer as opposed to the $3 glass thermometer in any situation except as a backup. It remains to be seen if there is a market for these new thermometers in the home taking into account that some older youngsters would be required, just as their 5 year old counterparts, to have their temperatures taken rectally. Parental (or other caretaker) preference would dictate the choice thermometer technology to use. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Tim [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Friday, August 14, 2009, 04:53: am Lets not all turn into nutheads here. A glass thermometer in the butt may be a drop more accurate then in the ear, the mouth, or the forehead....but really.... Ive spoken to many doctors and hospital workers about this and all of the forms of temperature taking are adequate. I suppose if you do it to your kids up the butt, it's cause of tradition. The same tradition that guides religion. If your kid's temperature is 101 instead of 100, so what? And if you take their temoperature by ear and it reads 100, you can THEN decide to do them up the butt. But i see no reason why to start with the butt temp first. Its just tradition and as older people die off and younger people come of age, we won't see too much temperature taking in the butt. My personal feeling is, you can stick any item up my butt you want, but your not jabbing it with a 2 inch needle!!!! Dont get me wrong, if I was on a desert island and the only medicine that existed was in shot form, sure....Id let ya jab me as I scream bloody murder. But fortunately we are past the tribal lifestyle and we have other alternatives. I once had blood poisoning and my vains turned bright red. I looked like a new Star Trek character. I went to my doc and he gave me some antibiotic pills and said, take these. He knew better then to tell me to bend over...lol. If he had, I woulda said "you first.' LOL Needless to say, in 2 days it was over and I lived happily ever after with no residual aching butt....lol This guy is not hunting his own food. He's buying it at a supermarket at the crazy self serve that never shuts up. Hes also trying every alternative before he takes it in the butt..LOL But if it floats ya boat to stick a thermometer up my rear, knock yaself out.....LOL Tim [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Tom [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Sunday, December 06, 2020, 12:20: am ok (__0__) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Trish [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, August 15, 2009, 11:34: am I think that using glass thermometers to take kids temperatures gives medical person who likes to take kids temperature in their behind a plausible reason for taking certain kids temps rectally. I think there are girls too that would get a thrill out of taking kids temperatures in their butts including me and I like guys. So I think that it is unfair to label the MA guy as a gay without knowing his circumstance. Too bad I took a different career path but it pays a lot better and has better hours. Besides I don't think that glass thermometers are used much anymore anyway in clinics. If they were still used, that might be a different story. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Karen [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Sunday, August 16, 2009, 10:30: am I think Trish is right. Whatever causes it, it is a thrill to take or watch a rectal temp being taken, boy or girl. It has been a quite a few years now, but can remember being over my one girlfriends house when I was about 11 to about 13 on weekends and watching her younger brother have his temp taken in his bottom was the highlight of the weekend. Of course it did not happen every weekend, but when it did it was sure thrilling to watch. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Stan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 03:45: am Trish and Karen - it's pretty disgusting to hear about your love of watching children suffer, like they're some kind of sideshow or even possibly for your own sexual pleasure. What a great parent/medical "professional" you are. Renee - I can see maybe up to the age of 6 but never after that. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Sue (UK) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2011, 10:20: am Like it or not, this "voyeristic interest" is something you're stuck with if you were raised in a bottom-obssessed medic-ocratic family, as I was! And I think we should stop fretting about it - after all, what we're talking about here is nothing whatsoever to do with sex, is it? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Renee [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Monday, August 17, 2009, 10:41: am Trish I think that you would love working at my doctors office. The doctor in my community has such great stature that no one questions his practice of still using glass thermometers. He is a GP that has redirected toward taking kids exclusively as patients. He gives the poor patients a lot of breaks and free sample prescription meds. Rectal temps are a lot more common with glass thermometers and the electric kind. They are used on virtually al 5 year olds and most 6 year olds. For the rest of them up to the age of 10 or 11 it depends on the patient. One thing for sure is that if the doctor wont see a patient without a temperature reading no matter. Whether or not a patient has the capability to take an oral temperature is arbitrary. It is a comforting to know that there is no possibility of a thermometer mishap in a kids mouth when the thermometer is safely held in place in their behinds for those three minutes. They dislike submitting to it and they let you know with their mouths unoccupied. Their complaints are acknowledged but but it does not change anything. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: Re: Small Town Doctor Author: Kate Cooper (EXCITED!) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 12:15: pm Please take a look at my casting call for small town doctors; it's a great opportunity! CASTING: SEEKING SMALL TOWN DOCTOR! ********** ARE YOU ONE OF, OR THE ONLY DOCTOR IN A VERY SMALL TOWN? A major, Emmy Nominated television Production Company is searching for small town Doctors to participate in a non-scripted docu-series. If you’re the doctor everyone in town turns to, we want to hear from you ASAP! Please email us your story, pictures of yourself and current contact information to: SmallTownDoctor@gmail.com [ Post a Reply to This Message ]