Did you watch Embarrassing Bodies series this week? What did you think?

Did you find it too graphic considering the time it was on (9-10pm), or do you think that in the context of health and science, the programmes were educational?

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I think this is a fantastic show.
I was able to diagnose a long standing problem of mine thanks to it, took the info from the show and showed it to the Doc who agreed I was suffering with an illness drescribed in the programme.
I do wonder about the folks on it though that are too embarressed to see their own Doc but don't mind millions of strangers viewing their 'bits'.

was it a willy illness?

It's great for those who won't visit their doctors' - love this show as it highlights the fact that men need to visit the doc's too!

if people find it too graphic then dont watch it!

I think it's one of those things you sit and watch and have no idea why....it's just intriguing.

Although, if it were me personally and I'd avoided going to my doctor for x number of years then why would your first point of call be national tv? I know some of them have seen a lot of doctors who haven't solved their problems but there were quite a few who said they'd never been to a doctor about their ailment.

Although the premise of quick and probably free (and seeminly quick!) treatment would reel me in if I had a problem that warranted surgery or intensive treatment. They're like an efficient NHS!

Good Show, though I enjoy the consensus about people 'too embarrased to goto their own doctors' then exposing to prime time tv??
especially "sex therpist" tracy cox (ex FHM magazine) who was filmed from the back, and blurred?? pot-kettle-black.

Good programme though, and excellent on-line support too (self examination video)

This type of show, and especially those on C5, remind me of that Mitchell & Webb sketch about 'The Boy With An Arse For A Face'. It's basically the modern-day equivalent of a Victorian freak show using the excuse of fitting into the factual bracket.

Hi i thought the show was brilliant very interesting informative i do agree though that people who won't go to the doctors with certain illnesses will readily go to the docs on this primetime tv programme to air their "bits" . I expect that the mens "bits" programme had actually encouraged men who are shy to their symptoms actually go to sort their problem out with their own GP well done CH4 for a great show..

I think it is a good show...but what I don't understand is if they are to embarrased to go to the doctor ,and yet happy to show all their bits in front of thousands of tv viewers.. imagine what the neighbours would say

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Originally posted by nangran:
I think it is a good show...but what I don't understand is if they are to embarrased to go to the doctor ,and yet happy to show all their bits in front of thousands of tv viewers.. imagine what the neighbours would say

I agree, it's amazing what people will do for fifteen minutes of fame. Andy was right

i found the program interesting and educational

i think its a bit stupid,
as its supposingly ppl who are too embarressed to go to the doctors but then dont mind showing every part of them off to millions of viewers!
it makes no sense at all!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by shorty132:
i think its a bit stupid,
as its supposingly ppl who are too embarressed to go to the doctors but then dont mind showing every part of them off to millions of viewers!
it makes no sense at all!![/QUOTEYes they wern't that embarressed were they? :clappin.But I did find it intresting tho!

I didn't see this, but I think it's an excellent idea. Some people are afraid to strip off and show the doctor their problem areas, because they think they've got something that has never been seen before. In reality, doctors just see us all as slabs of meat, and have no embarrassment whatosoever.

All in all, very reassuring.

it was a good programme but people say they are embrassed to go to the doctors but they go to the doctors that appear on tv when millions of people will watch them.
so i dont get it

Loved the programme, but then I can watch anything shoved up anywhere, lol, it does not bother me at all.

BUT, maybe should have been on a later slot? Undecided!?

I think its a great show! It educates you about problems that can occur in the body and they solve them well so if your scared to see the doctor watch this and you will then know what the doctor will do and it might reasure people!

A note on embarrassment. Going to a doctor can be a source of different sources of embarrassment.

Some of the time what's embarrassing is that the doctor is embarrassed. I know they say doctors aren't embarrassed, but that's not been my experience. I've come across that studied "I am being professional about this" look, and come to dread it. It's bad enough if you know you have (for example) a vaginal infection and think you may need antibiotics. Worse if the matter needs discussion.

The second - and the thing which I find really difficult - is the fear that your doctor thinks you're a prat for asking about the problem in the first place. Dinner party joke: "So you're a doctor, do you specialise? "Yes, I mainly deal with hypochondriacs - I'm a GP." The doctors in the programme look as though they won't be laughing at you the minute you leave the surgery, or moaning about your folly or your ignorance to their colleagues.

The third type of embarrassment is admitting to others that you're seeing the doctor. Now the people you saw on the box were the ones who were, once their problem had been diagnosed, able to permit it to be seen on TV. Perhaps they knew that something could be done, or that their problem wasn't something there doctor would despise them for having, or even that it was nothing to worry about.

I'm imagining that a lot of the people who come into that mobile clinic asked, afterwards, that any footage with them in it was not shown. The people who did allow it to be shown were, perhaps, the ones who had found that they were no longer embarrassed about their problem, once they had talked about it to someone calm and sympathetic.

I imagine, like many people, I wished that an ordinary GP's surgery could be like that clinic.

Its educational and i really admire the people who are prepared to let the nation see their "embarrasements"!

I AGREE

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Originally posted by **jlo**:
if people find it too graphic then dont watch it!

I loved this series. I didn't find it too graphic, it's just the human body after all.

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