You're not going to give me the umbrella, are you?

BMJ

Department of Genitourinary Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, London SE1 7EH.

Published: December 2006

The “umbrella test” is a longstanding urban myth that still bothers men who present for testing at sexual health clinics

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