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No. 209864
Ever since I heard about Dr. Nikita Levy, I will only see female gynos.
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/780184That being said, I've heard gynos like their job because they're more likely to deal with young, healthy patients than sick and dying ones (compared to other specialties), so I understand there are non-pervy reasons why a dude would choose it. Even still, I'd feel uncomfortable with one.
No. 209924
>>209714No, I don't feel comfortable around male gynecologists. The one time I allowed it, the situation became patronizing.
I gained a fuckton of weight on depo provera during my late teenage years, my parents forced me to be on it. To make it worse, I had this smug male gynecologist ask during an exam if I had "considered running on a treadmill." Not even "Do you exercise?" nope, just that I should buy me an expensive gym equipment so I could run. Which was stupid because I was lifeguarding at the time so I was physically active despite being overweight. Didn't even bring up switching birth controls as an option. Just made commentary based on my appearance like a piece of meat.
And if I ever had a daughter, I would never leave her alone in a room with a male doctor anything.
No. 209933
>>209928Me too, but I can't really explain exactly why. I'm just more comfortable around other women in general, I guess. I know a male gyno is just as qualified and 99.9% of them act professional and just do their job, but something about it still kind of freaks me out. I find it easier to talk to other women and I feel like they ~understand~ so I think that translates into a medical environment too.
I did go to a male one for my first visit, and he was very kind and worked hard to make me feel comfortable because I was so freaked out, so I do appreciate that. But I never went back to him and found a female doctor instead.
No. 209946
>>209933same anon. i brought my mum to the first one (her cousin died early from cancer). well she arranged it, she put me on contraceptive when i got my first serious boyfriend and said you need the smear when you become sexually active, so even tho i got mine at 18 she thought it was late. i think nhs only sends out letters when you're 21 or something. anyway, she sat up at my head haha
i just think some girls don't want to be exposed in front of a guy they don't know and that's ok. my mum said she doesn't mind being in front of a dude, but she's given birth in front of doctors she trusts them lol
No. 211501
I've seen male gynos, and they were fine and professional and I wasn't terribly uncomfortable in front of them. But now that I'm grown and can choose my own doctors, I opt for women. It's not even that I'm afraid they'll try something…it's more that I know that I won't be as honest as I should be around a man about my issues as I am around a woman. I feel a pressure to downplay stuff so I don't seem hysterical or whiny or weak or whatever.
Also, in my experience, if you have any issues that change w/ your menstrual cycle, SO many male docs, even the best ones, won't know shit. They treat it like this totally separate discipline you should see a specialist for, not something they need to understand because half their fucking patients have it. I have migraines and muscle issues that come and go w/ my cycle and at least w/ women docs, even if they're not gynos specifically, I know they have/have had a period themselves so they at least have that level of knowledge about what I'm dealing with.
No. 211597
>>209714My mom molested me so I prefer dudes. It's tough to find one I like though. I remember I'd moved to a new town and had made a first appointment, my feet were in the stirrups when he looked at my chart, saw my last name, and proceeded to tell me Polish jokes. I was so fucking pissed off. My point is they'd better have real good bedside manner and not act like cunts.
Women are better ob/gyn's because they have the same parts. Same for surgery, if you're having a hysterectomy, get a woman. My surgeon was amazing, she refused to use a morcellator, tried to do it vaginally but ended up doing a bikini cut. I know half of the reason she was so good is because she'd want the same done for her and said as much.
No. 211669
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Are sad looking dudes a turn off to women? I'm kind of a bleeding heart and I notice when I have a more stern expression on my face women tend to not break eye contact so quickly.
On one hand I can imagine it would be tiresome to be looked at as someone's therapist just because you are the object of their affection, but it's hard for me as a man not to swoon over the thought of being able to be absolutely straight with a woman about my emotions, and I think it shows on my face.
Sorry if this is retardedly off topic
No. 211717
>>211669stern-looking dudes intimidate me, I'd find a slightly sad-looking guy more approachable.
I dunno how I would feel about dating someone REALLY emotional, who cries at the drop of a hat though. I once mentioned in passing that I used to self-harm to one of my guy friends over skype and he immediately started crying because he felt so bad for me. I didn't make fun of him or anything of course and apologized for making him cry but privately I was thinking "damn it's not
that heavy…"
also (and I have NO idea how common this is, feel free to take it with a grain of salt) I think it's really hot when guys get all teary. Like physically attractive, when their eyes get watery and they get sniffly. I just wanna fuck a dude while he's crying lol idk.
No. 215117
>>211501To be fair there, if you're having issues that aren't in a doctors specialty, they should refer you to a specialist. Menstrual issues aren't always simple things, if they're past the extremely common and obvious stuff.
100% of patients they see have hearts, I'd still expect a referral to a cardiologist if I'm having heart issues.
No. 215142
>>209846same, I've heard more molestation stories with pediatricians than I've heard with gynos
given, I've heard horror stories of gynos being little ignorant shitheads, but as odd as it may sound I'd rather be called fat or flat chested than to get molested, then again it would be hard to molest someone when your job is to pretty much feel their tits and go in their vag, but people can definitely be creepy and gross about it
No. 215145
>>215142I honestly imagine gyno's can be a bit blunt just because of how desensitized they get to it. They do the same routine shit with the same parts of the same anatomical structures the vast majority of the time, so it's not a big deal to them, and I think that sometimes comes out in the way they talk.
Same happens in other fields sometimes too, my GP made a joke about the shape of my occipital lobe to me, and it was no big deal, because it's just a brain, no-one's insecure about that. The areas a gynecologist works with are more likely to be sources of insecurity, or are a bigger deal to most people than pretty much any other organ.
I'm sure surgeons make jokes that would be incredibly fucking creepy if literally anyone else said, but they're desensitised to that shit, so I'd assume they'd make jokes about it without realising that it could be inappropriate.
Just my theory at least.
No. 215146
>>215145well it's not exactly making jokes that I'm worried about, it's in cases like
>>209924 where gynos would just ignore patients problems and pin it on them, like some gynos refuse to inspect smaller breasts for some weird reason and some will comment on the patients entire body rather than just their vaginal area
No. 215149
>>215146I think there's a good chance they're misreporting that story, based on them showing a pretty big bias, but even if it's all true, one dumb question doesn't necessarily mean much of anything past that interaction being shit.
I don't get how they got from "have you tried X specific sort of exercise" to "You should buy a treadmill" though, barely anyone who runs on treadmills owns one.