Can you make a request for the old fashioned method?At the end of a general checkup a few years ago I was supposed to have my first prostate exam. My doctor, a very personable but large fingered man pulled out a syringe and test tube. Confused I asked what they were for. He said "Oh, that's how we do prostate exams now. As a blood test. If there's any issue, then we do it the other way."
I had been sweating up for the 20 years before that moment.
Asking for a friend.