# Women doctors and men doctors **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110 "2000-01-10T17:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/21 "2000-01-13T06:12:00Z")
I only go to women doctors myself, but I’ve found there is a great deal of difference between the way an ob/gyn and a non-ob/gyn performs a gyn exam. I think gyn docs pay a little bit more attention to how to examine you without being a pain in the vagina. Jes’ my thoughts, -C-girl ---
**Author:** ![Zulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@Zulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulu)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/22 "2000-01-13T06:22:00Z")
I don’t like going to doctors, so I go as little as possible. I don’t have a problem with male or female doctors. It’s their job, their gender doesn’t matter. I distrust them all equally. > [@](#): > > also…what kind of guy says “yeah I wanna be a vagina doctor” without having > some kind of sexual sidenote in his head? Sexual? Ever been a waitress? Every waitress I’ve ever known has said “I never wanna see another cup of coffee for as long as I live” at the end of the day. Apply that to a ‘vagina doctor’. For that reason, I would never date a doctor. The last thing I want is foreplay to turn into an exam. Okay, I have a question about this “turn your head and cough” exam thing. I’ve seen it in movies and stuff, but what exactly are they checking for? ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/23 "2000-01-13T06:44:00Z")
Hernias. When you cough, if you are gonna have a hernia (the kind where the intestines break into the scrotum), the doc can feel it about to go. Yes, it hurt just to type it… * * * Yer pal, Satan _ **First Place** Most Popular Poster of the 20th Century Competition As overseen by Coldfire_ ---
**Author:** ![Zulu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a9adbd/32.png) [@Zulu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulu)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/24 "2000-01-13T07:49:00Z")
Oh…ew… Thanks Satan… I think… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/25 "2000-01-13T08:33:00Z")
On the topic of ‘turn your head and cough’ last time I had that done, the doctor was a woman. A rather attractive woman. I was worried that … um … well, let’s not go into what I was worried about. Suffice it to say, it wouldn’t have been a problem had it been a doctor I didn’t think attractive. So, to sort of relate this to the OP…yes, I do, for certain procedures, mind if I have a female doctor. * * * _Eschew Obfuscation_ ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/26 "2000-01-13T16:23:00Z")
aha, would you prefer a prostate exam with a male or female doctor??? Remember, women as a rule have much smaller fingers. Most of you seem to forget that you can refuse any test you want. You don’t have to do the cough test, for example. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/27 "2000-01-13T17:11:00Z")
The reasons that some of you give for going to a female gynecologist are of interest. Those who like small hands of females must realize that she must apply much greater pressure to feel the same areas on pelvic exam than male physicians with longer fingers. Then I notice you are almost all discussing office gynecology. How about: Who is the better surgeon, the better diagnostician, and someone who is not burdened with personal problems that may affect their patient decisions. The above is entirely unrelated to male or female. Choose the physician for his or her knowledge, skill, training and kindness. The sex of the MD or DO should be the last to consider. * * * “If you are not becoming to others, you ought to be coming to us.” Lasky’s hair Salon ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/28 "2000-01-13T17:38:00Z")
On reasons for becoming a “vagina doctor”–remember the “OB” in “OB-GYN”; anybody, male or female, that wants to dedicate their life to delivering babies is working from good motives in my book. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110/29 "2000-01-14T02:32:00Z")
HANDY SEZ: > [@](#): > > aha, would you prefer a prostate exam with a male or female doctor??? Remember, women as a rule have much smaller fingers. ANSWER: Neither * * * “Ward, You’re upsetting the beaver.” Barbara Billingsley [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-doctors-and-men-doctors/6110.md?page=1)