elancee wrote:
I am female and have recently taken the "no more male physicians" stand. Male doctors are not sympathetic to female issues. How could they be, they can't relate to how I feel, physically or emotionally!? I did see one guy years ago who was kind. Talk about a rarity!
MDD123 wrote:
There was a standing protocol at the last clinic I worked in, no closing the doors with female patients, this happened for a reason. I don't wake up thinking about doing anything wrong with patients, but I get all kinds of thoughts coming into my head when I do my exams (I was just a medic). I'm not the guy who tried to slip one past the system, cop a feel, or what have you, but I can tell you it was tempting. Some guys will agree with me on this, the rest may be to ashamed to admit or not even interested in women (I feigned a lot of interest in men to cope).
I am also female, but I greatly prefer to see male doctors for some reason. I would rather a doctor were calm and professional and simply got on with what he was there to do - female doctors always try to make it personal. I suppose that they're trying to be friendly and put me at my ease, and maybe that would be what most women want, but it just makes me uncomfortable.
I think that, in terms of personal physical examinations, many women are embarrassed and unhappy because they are very aware of being A WOMAN being examined by A MAN. I always wonder if being asexual and not having a very strong female gender identification is the reason that it doesn't bother me in the same way. I am, to my own mind, 'a person' being looked at by another 'person'; it is not a two-gender, and potentially sexual, situation. Nor does it consciously occur to me that the doctor might be seeing it any differently; I just forget that most other people don't think the way I do.
26 Aug 2009, 3:02 pm
