An injury or illness to your organs deeper than your surface abdominal region might cause pain somewhere else
If they think it is refered pain then it might make sense to examine somewhere else but it sounds like incompetence to me if they did not tell you why they chose one location instead of where the pain is. They might have switched your file with someone else.
@shortstories I have a physical scheduled with my doc next week so I guess we'll see then. Thanks for the info!