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“Friends” lasted 10 seasons, and Perry was spiraling for most of them, according to his new memoir, the grimly funny, mostly unvarnished and frequently proctological “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2022

"Few Americans, I think, could withstand the kind of legal proctological examination that I have been under for the last two and a half years," Stone said.

From Fox News • Dec. 6, 2018

But doctors emphasize that whenever rectal bleeding occurs, there should be a prompt proctological examination; while hemorrhoids themselves are not life-threatening, such bleeding may be a sign of cancer or some other serious ailment.

From Time Magazine Archive