Thank you - I was worried that the Dope would just leave that hanging there. 
Damn, being a prison doctor is less stressful than OB?? :eek:
Zombie thread this may be, I must concur with the “couldn’t have been less sexy” consensus. Pelvic exams are sexy in the way a bloodcurdling scream is singing (death metal notwithstanding). You’re using the same anatomy, and similar mechanisms, but producing an entirely different result.
Cannot resist snark. Maybe they are gay men who want patients for whom sexual attraction will never affect their ability to diagnosis.
On a more serious note, I like a female GYN simply because they often have first hand knowledge of the subject matter that a male GYN will never have. However, if none are available, a male GYN is fine. It’s not sin if it’s medical.
Count me as another of those that prefer male OB/GYNs.
When I lived in NYC, I had a gay, male OB/GYN. It was like finding a unicorn.
Not too much liking finding a unicorn, I hope. Because unicorns have this horn growing out of their forehead, and…
Oh come on! I set you jokers up with a gem like that and no one bites? Of course the correct answer is “Only if she’s a dentist.”
This is definitely not a specialty people go into for the easy lifestyle. OB/Gyns actually tend to have pretty bad work hours even by the standards of doctors. Unpredictable deliveries, the chance of being required to perform emergency surgery, etc. make for a crummy lifestyle.
Dermatology and radiology is where all the slackers who want to golf go (well, as long as they stop slacking off enough in med school to get good enough grades and scores to be able to get into such cush specialties).
To an extent. I’ve definitely seen people expressing the view that it’s weird for a female to want to be a urologist, though there is also a need for people who want to deal with female urologic patients.
My OB *teacher *was a gay, male Certified Nurse Midwife! Beat THAT!
(true story.)
You have (or had) Nanny Ogg as a GYN? How cool is THAT?
I believe pathology is another good specialty for the golf-loving doctor: you don’t even have to see patients, just small samples taken from them 
(Though it might not suit those who hate the sight of blood)
Heh. I defy anyone to continue believing that after the onset of any significant dental problem.
Should we use intervene with anaesthetics and treatment, or shall we pray about it instead?
By that standard then, God (or whoever) must want me to sleep ALL DAY LONG and never do anything. I have hypo (wait..is it hypo or hyper? Must be hypo..I can never keep them straight!)thyroidism and without my medication, that’s pretty much all I do. I go into freaking hibernation.
When my female OB/GYN went on maternity, she didn’t pass on her cases to ANYBODY (she was the only one in her office) and had her nurses (or whoever they were) tell her patients that unless it was a OMGSEWWIOUS EMERGENCY that she wasn’t even consider reading their message.
No really. I had a problem that kinda freaked me out, I didn’t know what to do or if it was serious so I called her office. “Um…your problem? Doesn’t sound like it’s serious. She’s only taking SERIOUS EMERGENCIES right now because she’s like, on maternity leave and no…there’s not another doctor handling her cases.” was the response I got when I called her office and told the nurse on duty (I assume she was a nurse) what was going on. I was so freaked out I was nearly in tears and I found another OB/GYN that day.
I blame the movie Eyes Wide Shut for this belief.
For example, I know an elderly male OB-GYN who (based on the clinical summaries I see as a pathologist) has a practice that appears heavily weighted towards the morbidly obese (sorry). Of course it’s not unknown for a doc to molest women who are not model-caliber.
I’d personally prefer a male to a female urologist or proctologist, but it’s not an absolute requirement. If some women prefer a male gyno, there’s nothing wrong with that.
pissant correction - the current correct terminology for a Pap smear these days is “Pap test” (the vast majority of practices use a liquid-based technology and making smears on slides is obsolete).
Oddly (?) I can’t think of any golf enthusiasts in our pathology practice - most of the ones I know are internists or surgeons). As for the hating the sight of blood thing, we get surgical nurses bringing us specimens who go on about how oogy they are, but don’t seem to mind being in the middle of them when they are alive and spurting.
It varies really heavily depending on the person, their level of comfort/personal issues, and the person performing the pelvic exam. I’ve never had any bad experiences, but it’s not the most fun thing to do ever. I’ve also never had it hurt or had a doctor decide I’m being a wuss during the procedure and use force.
I would be livid. I had what turned out to be a serious emergency in the past year and had to find myself an OB/GYN that was covered under my insurance with no warning. If they said “oh, that doesn’t seem like that big of an emergency,” there would’ve been some major problems, including telling every person I knew what a poor regard for patients that OB/GYN had.
Ya know, every time I think we’re running out of crazy some kind soul shows up to revive a dead thread and reaffirm my faith in the internets.
Cliff Huxtable was an OB/GYN. Really, we should have all seen that he was a perverted bastard sooner, what with the jello this and pudding pops that. Pudding on a stick is unnatural and an abomination unto God. And the sweaters. My God, the sweaters. You know who else wears ugly sweaters? Rick Santorum. Would you want him diving for pearls in your grandmother’s bearded oyster? Didn’t think so.
Bravo!
I don’t have a specific obgyn; I only go rarely so I get whichever one has an open slot in the day that’s convenient for me.
My first obgyn was a guy with hands like a gorilla’s: that’s bad. But so is the female gyn who refuses to believe any woman with regular periods and who poo-poohs any woman’s worries about dismenorrea or losing regularity with “that’s how it is for everybody”. Learning that the gyn has irregular periods and can go for months without one is definitely not the information I go to see a gyn for.
Anyone else reminded of that episode of Friends where Rachel tries to hot on the cute gynecologist, saying “I thought a gynecologist would have no trouble dating women.”
Dr. Franzblau: I try not to let my work affect my personal life, but it’s hard, when you… do what I do. It’s like uh…Well, for instance, what do you do?
Rachel: I’m a waitress
Dr. Franzblau: Okay, all right, well aren’t there times when you come home at the end of the day, and you’re just like, “If I see one more cup of coffee…”
Believe me, that was the final straw for that doctor. I should’ve run screaming when I first went to her at around 12 weeks pregnant (my reg doc didn’t do OB stuff) and she told me that I WOULD be induced because it made the deliveries fit better into her schedule. I admit, I was too afraid of her to say no.
My thing that was going wrong turned out to be my body being weird (for the eleventybillionth time) and nothing serious, thank goodness. But I didn’t know that and I was seriousl freaked out and in tears by the time I got off the phone with the nurse. I didn’t know what to do and fortunately, my husbandface was smart enough to get me a cup of coffee, calm me down and help me find another OB/GYN covered by our ins.