Dr Amir Khan

There's lots of different reasons.

Pain is a big one, you know.

So there's lots of different reasons why people might not come in with their symptoms or for their smears or to get examined for whatever reason.

Right.

What I will say to you, and it's the same when men come in about their testicles or their prostate or when anyone comes in with anything, it makes, honestly, when we're in work mode.

Do you know when you're in work mode?

Yes.

Like, work mode is work mode.

We're not thinking anything.

We don't care that you haven't washed.

We don't care that you haven't shaved.

You don't need to apologise to me forever.

You don't have to apologize for any reason.

Honestly, I treat that examination same as if I was looking in the back of your eyes, inside your ears, listening to your chest.

It's exactly the same.

There is no other thought going through my head apart from, let's see if there's anything unusual there that I need to do something about.

is it.

And hair doesn't get in the way.

Smells don't get in the way.

Discharge doesn't get in the way.