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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Core body temperature is a vital sign. Guess the most clinically accurate way to measure that one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not by prostate exam, that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Close. It's known as rectal temperature

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know. It's not a prostate exam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The net result is similar, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The net result of a prostate exam is that you get a boner. Temp measuring is just sticking an item in your butthole. Two different diagnostic things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Speak for yourself ;p