I had to visit my doctors office the other day for a shoulder injury. Unfortunately, my regular doctor was not in so I had a visit booked with the other doctor… Dr. so and so… (Did not really get the name)
To my surprise this Doctor was female. Not a big deal, I have absolutely nothing against a female Doctor, in fact I think it’s a great thing. However, I have to admit, it was a bit awkward, since we had to do a few exercises that involved me leaning on her and her feeling my shoulder for pressure. It made me a bit red in the face!
My question to all is this: Do you feel that you could go through an entire examination (physical… cough please) With out it getting a little awkward? Also, what are your general feelings on the subject if any, and of course if you have a female doctor feel free to sound off as well.
(Any female doctors out there in this forum? What’s your opinion?)
I used to have a female doctor who I didn’t like very much. Nothing to do with her gender, she would always see me at least an hour after my appointment and she never really paid too much attention to what I was saying.
I was in the hospital a couple years ago when my diabeties got out of whack. While I was there, I was seen by 2 internists, one male, one female. When I got out, I need to make an appointment with one of them and my wife made me choose the male. She didn’t trust me with the female.
My husband’s favorite medical professional is one of the PAs at the practice we use - a female. He’ll wait and extra day or two just to get to see her. I don’t think she does physicals, tho, and it’s been so long since he’s had one, I can’t remember if he saw a woman or a man for that.
I don’t care who he goes to see as long as he goes. If I have the slightest sniffle, he’ll tell me to go to the Dr, but unless he’s lost a couple of limbs, he doesn’t like to go. Drives me crazy!!
I had to go in for my rash (see related thread). It was a little awkward just taking my shirt off, but happily for all she kept any insults to herself.
Still, I don’t know how I’d react if she had to do a prostate exam.
I had my yearly physical yesterday and my doctor is a woman. She’s a terrific doctor with a great personality and manner. Getting a testicular and prostate exam isn’t a big deal, just part of her job.
My doctor is a female DO. I’ve had physicals, etc.
I’ve been to her for everything for the last 3 years or so.
It never occurred to me that there should be a problem. She’s a doctor. She asked once if I would prefer to wait for a male doctor for certain things. I told her I would rather not wait (probably would have taken an extra half hour, hrumph).
She’s one of the best doctors I have ever been to. She really works with me to figure out what’s wrong.
As far as your qusestion about things getting awkward, I repeat she is a doctor. What’s the big deal?
Just occurred to me:
Is this another one of those nudity = sex things? Cause if it is that would explain why it doesn’t faze me. 'cause I have never understood that whole mind set either.
Well, here’s the awkward part. If a woman is feeling your member, you might have a physiological reaction of some sort. This can be embarrassing when the woman is your doctor and is merely performing a checkup.
I have a chick Doctor. Never thought too much about it. The only time I even thought about it was the ball grab portion. And that was only a big deal because they bring in a nurse for liability protection during the holding, and the nurse was really cute, and the room was reeeeaaaally cold.
When my sons were quite small, their pediatrician was a woman. We stayed with her until we moved out of state so the boys had seen her for all their lives (they were 5 and 7 when we moved). Their new doctor was a man, and when we first saw him, the older son said to me, “I didn’t know men could be doctors, Mom.”
I’ve had female doctors. One of them sucked for reasons unrelated to her gender. I didn’t notice any difference. Now, a really attractive doctor boom-ba-chick-a-wa-wa might cause some problems.
I’ve had several female doctors, and my current doctor’s office (or surgery, as they say in the UK) is entirely staffed by woman physicians. Most of the ones I’ve seen have been good, although in one case both the wife and I registered formal complaints against a former doctor due to repeatedly giving out bad advice and failing to listen to her patients. Not that that had anything to do with her gender, mind you.
No, it doesn’t bother me, even when being poked in the more sensitive areas. As long as my doctors act professionally and competently, I don’t care who they are.
Anything I’d be uncomfortable having a woman doctor do to me I’d also be uncomfortable having a male doctor do too. I’ve had a woman doctor for physicals and such for the past 10 years without any problems. I had to see the male doctor at the same clinic once and I was not impressed with him at all so I’m glad I selected the woman as my primary care physician from the start.
I’ve had two women doctors and they were both first rate. Unfortunately, they both left the area. I’d much rather have a female doctor than a male because my women doctors seemed to listen much better than my men doctors have. Of course, YMMV.
Yes, I have a female doctor, and yes, she’s given me a full physical (too young to have my prostate checked, but she did the fondling bit while I coughed), and no, it wasn’t awkward, and no, I’m not gay.
Of course, she’s about 15 years older than I am and not particularly good-looking…
My husband and I see the same female doctor. He’s had a physical and he thinks she’s a great doctor. He doesn’t seem to be uncomfortable with it at all, seeing as how he’s never mentioned it to me…hmm…maybe I should bring this up in conversation…
Bummer.