Because most women want to fondle your prostate by sticking their fingers up your ass? 
Pretty much ditto, here. I’m not arrogant enough to think that some guy would spend eight years and tens of thousands of dollars just to check out my vagina in a clinical setting. It’s nice, I’ll admit, but not that great. A good doctor is a good doctor, that’s all there is to it for me.
minor rant Why is it that women say of male doctors, “But they don’t know what it feeeels like?”. Can you assume that just because your doctor is female, she’s had UTIs or yeast infections, or gone through labour? It’s weird.
Male, don’t care. I pay my doctor to do a job. He’s basically a biology geek with an office. I’m about as interested in his opinions about anything other than medicine as I am interested in my mechanic’s opinions about anything other than cars.
Male here. I guess it doesn’t matter if I’m getting good care, but my preference would be female. It was actually explained to me pretty well by a female doctor. I was to have a prostate exam that day. A small almost middle-aged woman walked into the examination room. It turned out she was my doctor. She chatted a bit and explained what was going to happen. Then she pointed to two boxes of rubber gloves. One was size X-Large, the other was size small. She then told me she was the only doctor on the urology staff that wore the small gloves. The rest needed the other box. :eek:
I felt fortunate!
I usually don’t care. The only thing I have a preference for is the dentist. I’d rather have a woman dentist because I’m a huge wuss and require the utmost of babying. So yeah, they’re usually nicer.
I prefer women dentists but I always thought it was because they have smaller hands and aren’t as concerned with the “wider, wider” routine. After a long dental session with a male dentist I feel like my head has been torn in half. Maybe it’s just my imagination.
I’m male, and I prefer a female doctor. I developed this preference after suffering through one too many checkups with one too many gruff ex-Marine doctors who were obviously bored, obviously phoning it in, and obviously uninterested in whatever I might be asking about (and I’m no hypochondriac). In short, I switched to female doctors after discovering I can’t rely on the males to do their jobs properly. My current doctor, Barbara, is a model of patient education.
P.S. No offense to ex-Marines. Fine people. I just wish they’d avoid this line of work.
I’m female. I prefer a female gynecologist, but other than that, I don’t really care.
I’m a guy. In college, I got to know some female nursing students. They talked about learning to be professional in working with male patients. They’d roll their eyes, talking about men who got embarrassed or aroused around their nurses. That formed my attitude toward medical women. I figure, they went to a lot of trouble to become professionals; the least I can do is treat them like professionals.
So, I try to be honest and not embarrassed about showing my body to a doctor or nurse. By the time they see me as a patient, they’ve seen enough naked men that they’re not uneasy. Why should I be? If I keep a personal problem to myself out of embarrassment, I’m cheating myself.
My urologist is male, but a couple of his nurses are gorgeous women. I strive to talk to them as though I were fully clothed. Even when they handle Big Olaf? Yes, even then.
It doesn’t matter how many porn flicks you’ve seen where a nurse or doctor has sex with a patient in the office, it ain’t gonna happen. Save that fantasy for later.
Male. Really not worried. Can’t remember if there was a female doctor involved in the time I had warts on my junk, but I’d have been cool with it. It was a guy doctor who had the fun experience of putting what felt like a clear plastic funnel up my poop chute last year though. (It was only Clements, and they’re better now.)
Clement Freud. The rest you can work out.
Male here. I have been in the situation described in the OP. I have been examined for goose bumps on my dick (Fordyce Spots) and I chose a male doctor. It goes with the job and he certainly won’t be complaining that I’m paying him to look at my junk. I just care about his medical opinion. In my experience female urologists are very rare. The reason I wouldn’t be confortable being examined by one is that I would find it embarassing to be aroused while she examines me. Which seems like a natural ocurrence.
First of all, I swear I am not making this up.
I go to a male gynocologist. He went to high school and college with my mom. (I have a feeling they dated at one point.) He ran into her while he was head resident at the hospital where she was in labor. He stayed past the end of his shift to help deliver me, then became our family gynocologist when he opened his own practice.
I feel like that’s the weirdest possible situation, but it works for me. When he’s examining my girly bits, we talk about the most normal things and even laugh a bit. The nurses in the room always give us weird looks.
I’ve had my knob examined by a lady doctor (it was cold in the surgery, I swear). I’ve had things stuffed up my butt by doctors and nurses of both sexes. When you’re in that position, all dignity is gone. It doesn’t bother me at all what gender or orientation they are - it’s just a job.
I prefer male OB/GYN - most every female one I’ve ever been to was too rough with the internal. One even told me “It doesn’t hurt, be quiet.” :o
Anyone else, I just have to be comfortable with them. Doesn’t matter their age, sexual orientation, gender, colour, height, whatever.
Comfortable either way. My regular doctor is male, and he does my girlie exams, saw me through my pregnancy, the whole nine yards. I’ve taken off my pants for him enough times to be past any weirdness, not that there ever was much. I’ve had doctors I liked and doctors I didn’t of both sexes.
Heh,
When I turn 40 four years from know I think I will prefer,… no demand a female doctor. They have skinnier fingers! :eek:
If you’re interested to actually know, when it came time for me to bid my pediatrician farewell and get a family doctor, I asked the pediatrician for a referral to a gay male doctor, which he gave me. So yes, I’m pretty sure… that, and the rainbow flag and picture of him and his boyfriend on the desk. :rolleyes:
Anyhow, I wanted a gay male family doctor just because I don’t have to explain everything about my sex life. Especially when I was 17, I didn’t want to be running around trying to find a doctor who won’t quiz me on why I did this/why I want this kind of a test/how I could possibly be doing this/why I wanted to know why it hurts when I do this. I know many straight doctors would be chill, but I wanted to put the odds in my favour, especially considering how hard it can be to find a family doctor these days.
As for specialists or clinic doctors, I really don’t care; if he needed to refer me to an andrologist or urologist it wouldn’t make a difference to me whether they were male or female. It’s really just my own doctor.
Also, my therapist is female and I feel comfortable talking to her about sex.
I feel exactly the same as you described. The smaller the fingers, the better. It hurts to keep forcing me open wider all the time! I insist on women dentists.
I was examined by a female doctor when I experienced complications/infection following my vasectomy; didn’t bother me in the slightest - I can’t imagine any concerns or reservations I might have that wouldn’t apply equally to doctors of either sex.
I know where you’re coming from, but my (male) dentist did a root canal for me about five years back, and all I felt was when one of my moustache hairs got snagged, so he’s booked in for the duration now.
TMI: My, am I glad I don’t have to make my living smelling stuff like the inside of that tooth smelt. ::barf::