Meghan gave a soft knock and then opened the door and ushered Leigh into the room. The room was large and well-lit and there was an array of equipment in the room that was used to examine and diagnose patients or as in her case, candidates.
To the left of the door was a large desk and behind the desk sat a man clad in a white doctor's coat. He stood up put out his hand and greeted Leigh with a firm hand shake.
He said his name is Doctor McPherson. He was a tall well-built man in his forties and has a short cropped head of hair that was visibly greying. His Blue eyes were penetrating and Leigh felt as if they could see through the gown she was wearing and into her soul.
He motioned for her to sit in-front of the desk while Meghan busied herself with files and documents to the left of the desk.
Dr. McPherson was talking about all sorts of things such as the weather and the prospects for the year ahead. Leigh listened yet did not focus 100% of her attention to what was being said as she was feeling very self-conscious and anxious.
The doctor then finished trying to put Leigh at ease and then asked the nurse for Leigh's file which was handed to him. He explained to Leigh that he would be recording the session where they discussed her medical history using a voice recorder to help him remember some of the crucial points which he may forget and then he studied the file and a few minutes later launched into a list of questions about her medical history as well as that of her family. The date of her last menstrual cycle and also if she is sexually active or using any prescribed contraceptive medications. She patiently answered all his questions and explained some other facets of her general health and well-being. All the while Dr. McPherson was making copious notes on her intake forms.
Once all this was done he grew silent again and once again re-read the annotations that he had made. He then proceeded to tell her more about the medical screening and that it was designed to uncover any underlying medical matters that may exclude her from the training and mentioned that it included a full and comprehensive set of diagnostic images, blood tests, obtaining various tissue samples as may be required to check for any anomalies as well as a full physical medical examination in various stages of her visit. Tests and Examinations will be invasive and some would not. There would be another purpose and that would be to evaluate her psychologically by removing her from her comfort zones by undertaking the screenings in most cases with her being completely nude. This did perplex Leigh as she did not like the prospect of having to expose herself to strangers while they were poking and prodding her in her most intimate of places.
Dr. McPherson mentioned that certain of the tests that will be conducted had to do with her responses specifically to sexual stimulus which Leigh did not look forward to at all. She sat there and absorbed what she was being told and decided that even though it would be embarrassing she would endure for the sake of being able to escape the mundaneness of her job at the moment and that it would afford her the ability to live the adventure.
When he was satisfied he asked Leigh if she had any questions and Leigh said that she did not. Dr. McPherson then announced that they could move on to the next phase, the physical examination. This sent shivers down Leigh's spine and she broke out into a cold sweat.
Dr. McPherson then led Leigh to the examination table and told her to get up onto it and asked her to sit up. From the trolley next to the table he took a Thermometer and he put a cover on the tip and stuck it in her left ear and pressed the button. A few seconds later a beep occurred and he removed the device and read the temperature to the nurse as 36.5Β°C, which she duly jotted down
He proceeded to check her head, ears, eyes, mouth, throat and palpated her glands in her neck. Each time he had a finding he gave the information to the nurse who wrote it down. He then took out his stethoscope and went to the back of her and slightly pulled open her gown and dropped the head in and started listening to her lungs asking her to breathe deeply all the while. He then came round the front of her and asked her to loosen the front of the gown a bit more so he can listen to her lungs from this angle. She obliged this and dropped the gown off her shoulders paying attention to keep her breasts covered as much as she can. He listened to the upper part of her lungs and then declared he had to listen to her heart and asked her to remove the gown down to her waist.
Leigh was getting a bit more apprehensive and yet kept the end goal in mind which is being able to be selected to go on course and thus serve her country in more exciting roles. She capitulated and loosened more of the gown and let it slide over her shoulders and drop away down to her waist thus leaving her naked from the waist up. Her breasts, now exposed, got some of the chilled air on them and this and the fact that she felt aroused by Dr. McPherson's touch manifested in the arousal and reaction of her nipples and aureoles which was quite noticeable even at a distance.
Dr. McPherson then took his stethoscope and placed it on the upper part of her chest wall and asked her to breathe in and out deeply while he listened to her upper lungs. He moved the Stethoscope to the general area where her Bronchi were located and listened then for a couple of breaths. Then he stuck the stethoscope under her left breast listening to the base of the lung and afterwards to the right one. While moving the head of the stethoscope around his doctors coat sleeve brushed the skin of her breasts and this made her nipples ache and she was really getting aroused.
He then moved the head of the Stethoscope around to the centre of her chest and varying the pressure or her chest intently listened to the sound of her heart with the intent of revealing valve defects and murmurs which it seems he did not find as he declared that all sounds good. Leigh kept her nipples covered lightly with her fingers during this part of the examination.
The doctor then announced that he would like to get the blood drawn so that it can be sent to the laboratory for analysis. Meghan collected all the Vacuum tubes needles swabs and other supplies and put them in a plastic kidney dish and handed all this to the doctor.
He came to Leigh and placed the items in the dish on the bed next to her and he asked her if she had a preference to which arm he may use to draw the blood from. She mentioned the left arm. He then removed the tourniquet and applied it to her left bicep and asked her to pump her fist. Her veins pumped up and showed nicely. He took an alcohol swab and carefully cleaned the vein he selected and then he prepared the collection kit took out the needle uncapped it and slid the needle into her vein effortlessly and smoothly and got the desired back flow and then proceeded to pop the vacuum tubes in and filled 6 of them in all with a sample of blood for testing and analysis. He finished and took a small cotton swab he removed the needle and applied firm pressure to the needle site then handed it to Leigh and told her to keep pressure there for a minute, which she did. He then labeled the tubes disposed of the needle and got a band aid and stuck the band aid on the site.
Dr. McPherson then produced a Blood Pressure cuff and wrapped it firmly around her left bicep and proceeded to inflate it and used his stethoscope in the crook of her arm to hear the rhythmic beat of her heart to help him determine the reading as 126 over 82 which he called out to Meghan. He placed the tip of her left index finger into a Pulse Oximeter sensor and soon the values appeared as Oxygen Saturation 99% and pulse of 68 beats per minute. He removed all the diagnostic equipment and went to pack them away.
Dr. McPherson then came up to Leigh and took her Left Arm which he then examined and bent at all the joints and this he repeated for the right arm. He stepped back and examined her lower legs and feet in a similar way and asked her if she had ever broken any bones which she said that she had not. He came round to her back and carefully examined and palpated her back and spine and moved her head around on its axis then checked her shoulders and the musculature in her back carefully pressing in places and asking if that caused any pain which she replied in she did not.
Dr. McPherson then asked her if she could get up and walk over to the scales so that Leigh could have her height, weight and Body Mass Index measured. As she got up though the gown slipped down and fell onto the floor. She hastily bent down and tried to retrieve it and he said for her to leave it as he needed to measure her weight with her only as it could give a misreading which may be needed to be as accurate as possible and this meant in her case that it had to be done by weighing just her, completely naked and that's it. She carefully stood up and with her left hand covered her pubic mound and with her right arm, her breasts and nipples as much as she could and then slowly walked over to the scales and got onto it. He came over and called out her weight to Meghan and then had her turn around so he could measure her height. Which she did carefully so not to lose her balance on the platform of the scale and fall as she was still trying to cover her nudity with her arm and hand. She turned around and he measured her height and called it over to Meghan and he then directed her to walk up and down a line marked on the floor to check for any anomalies in her gait while walking.