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Which do you prefer?
| Tue, 03-04-2008 - 2:09pm |
Which do you prefer?
- A male GYN doctor.
- A female GYN doctor.
- It doesn't really matter.
- Feel free to expand on your answer!
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I voted female.
I'm very sorry to hear about everyone's bad experiences. Hugs.
I just prefer woman doctors. Not for any specific reason, except that men scare me and I don't want them touching me or even dealing with me at all. There's been a couple of situations where I had to have a man gyno because they were the only one's doing biopsies, but I was very careful to research who I wanted and make sure that I had a good instinct. In the past when I would go to a new male gyno, I would have nightmares the night before about it. Now I just deal with females. They are so much more gentle usually too, and that makes a big difference to me also.
My first exam was done by my family doctor, a woman. I think I was 12, maybe 13. I had never been comfortable with her for some reason. As she was getting everything ready & showing me the different instruments, she told me that her kids play with the plastic (clean, unused, of course) speculums as "ducks". She said that she even drew faces on them for the kids! She then proceeded to hold the speculum up for me to see & made "quacking" sounds!! I'm 33, still remember it clearly and still find it very disturbing!
Since then, I've been more comfortable with male doctors in general. It doesn't really matter what I'm seeing them for.