Is there a specialty that would deal with teens with PCOS, specifically?

[bluevirgo]

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Just curious.. I think its part of my all girls private school education that wants to help young women in my future, especially seeing as though I have PCOS, but medically.. would this be like pediatrics, or gyn, or.. idk, maybe an endocrinologist dealing specifically with something like PCOS? Does anyone know how this would work?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Arkangeloid]

I too am interested in such a specialty.

 

[Brain Bucket]

Ob/Gyn with reproductive endo and infertility fellowships at the least, I'm guessing.

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[colbgw02]

My best guess is general pediatrics and/or pediatric endocrinology initially, to manage the metabolic component of the syndrome. Once fertility becomes an issue, then OB/GYN +/- REI. Insert joke about pediatric gynecology here.

 

[tco]

Pediatric gyneco...DAMN!

 

[DermViser]

Just curious.. I think its part of my all girls private school education that wants to help young women in my future, especially seeing as though I have PCOS, but medically.. would this be like pediatrics, or gyn, or.. idk, maybe an endocrinologist dealing specifically with something like PCOS? Does anyone know how this would work?

Thanks for the help.

I too am interested in such a specialty.

 

[DermViser]

Just curious.. I think its part of my all girls private school education that wants to help young women in my future, especially seeing as though I have PCOS, but medically.. would this be like pediatrics, or gyn, or.. idk, maybe an endocrinologist dealing specifically with something like PCOS? Does anyone know how this would work?

Thanks for the help.

OB-Gyn + Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship or
OB-Gyn + Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Fellowship or
OB-Gyn + both fellowships.

 

[mvenus929]

Pediatric Endocrinology also deals with a lot of these girls in their teen years. The two main researchers at my school that deal with PCOS are both endocrinologists (one is pediatrics, one is adult).

Depends on what you want to do with the rest of your time and/or what aspect of the PCOS you want to deal with (metabolic management vs. fertility).

That said, my sister, after informing her pediatrician that she had been diagnosed with PCOS, was sent to an OB-GYN. So it may be regional as well who sees them.

 

[Arkangeloid]

Well excuse me for being a man.

Just kidding, I wouldn't do anything with OB/GYN if it paid 1 mil/year, I heard there's a lot of stank puss in that specialty.

 

[DermViser]

Well excuse me for being a man.

Just kidding, I wouldn't do anything with OB/GYN if it paid 1 mil/year, I heard there's a lot of stank puss in that specialty.

It definitely requires quite a bit of strength for a male to decide to become an OB-Gyn, IMHO. Both in practice and the residency.

 

[Arkangeloid]

It definitely requires quite a bit of strength for a male to decide to become an OB-Gyn, IMHO. Both in practice and the residency.

Why do you say that?

 

[Winged Scapula]

Well excuse me for being a man.

Just kidding, I wouldn't do anything with OB/GYN if it paid 1 mil/year, I heard there's a lot of stank puss in that specialty.

Is it at all possible that you make such comments around your classmates and that's why you have little success in the dating arena? The immature misogynistic tones are troubling.

 

[DermViser]

Why do you say that?

 

[Brain Bucket]

 

[DermViser]

Is it at all possible that you make such comments around your classmates and that's why you have little success in the dating arena? The immature misogynistic tones are troubling.

I sure hope he doesn't say it around female classmates. Many of them will be on rotations with you (as are males). They can either help you or throw you under the bus.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I sure hope he doesn't say it around female classmates. Many of them will be on rotations with you (as are males). They can either help you or throw you under the bus.

Its not even necessary to say it around the female classmates. There are actually some men who would be offended by such an attitude and would discuss it with their female friends.

 

[DermViser]

Its not even necessary to say it around the female classmates. There are actually some men who would be offended by such an attitude and would discuss it with their female friends.

Very true. There are some men that would do that. Definitely not smart to say it off hand.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Very true. There are some men that would do that. Definitely not smart to say it off hand.

Its probably not smart to hold sexist attitudes at all, regardless of whom the target is (male or female), given we're supposed to be "professional" healthcare mature providers.

 

[DermViser]

Its probably not smart to hold sexist attitudes at all, regardless of whom the target is (male or female), given we're supposed to be "professional" healthcare mature providers.

I agree with you. A lot of off-hand sexist comments (i.e. female genitalia) said by male medical students during OB-Gyn by people were usually due to the inherent stress, sleep deprivation of the rotation.

OB-Gyn is one of those very resident dependent specialties I believe. If you have a resident willing to teach you (not necessarily spoon feed you), then your experience will be much better. Hard to ask that though from female OB-Gyn residents, many of whom are sleep deprived, some pregnant themselves 😱, and automatically assume that bc you're male you don't want to learn.

 

[Arkangeloid]

Is it at all possible that you make such comments around your classmates and that's why you have little success in the dating arena? The immature misogynistic tones are troubling.

Perhaps. but the only such comments I have made were about going "ham on a bish" after an exam and "palpating the S5 dermatome" of a cute brunette at a party, but those were to men I considered friends.

Immature perhaps, but I wouldn't call it misogynistic: I have nothing against women.


If you think it's affecting my dating performance, I'll give it a rest outside SDN.


As for the "stank puss" thing, I was alluding to the famous Ludacris song.

0:50, Warning: Explicit Lyrics

 

[Winged Scapula]

Perhaps. but the only such comments I have made were about going "ham on a bish" after an exam and "palpating the S5 dermatome" of a cute brunette at a party, but those were to men I considered friends.

Immature perhaps, but I wouldn't call it misogynistic: I have nothing against women.

If you think it's affecting my dating performance, I'll give it a rest outside SDN.

I"ll take your word for it but your comment about "stank puss" above leaves some room for doubt.

 

[DermViser]

Perhaps. but the only such comments I have made were about going "ham on a bish" after an exam and "palpating the S5 dermatome" of a cute brunette at a party, but those were to men I considered friends.

Immature perhaps, but I wouldn't call it misogynistic: I have nothing against women.

If you think it's affecting my dating performance, I'll give it a rest outside SDN.

It could definitely affect how you perceive women, which would then affect how you directly interact with them. Women aren't humans defined by their detachable vaginas:

 

[Arkangeloid]

I"ll take your word for it but your comment about "stank puss" above leaves some room for doubt.

It's just a phrase Ludacris used in "Southern Hospitality," see the video I linked above.

 

[DermViser]

Perhaps. but the only such comments I have made were about going "ham on a bish" after an exam and "palpating the S5 dermatome" of a cute brunette at a party, but those were to men I considered friends.

Immature perhaps, but I wouldn't call it misogynistic: I have nothing against women.


If you think it's affecting my dating performance, I'll give it a rest outside SDN.


As for the "stank puss" thing, I was alluding to the famous Ludacris song.

0:50, Warning: Explicit Lyrics

Ah, Ludacris - the pinnacle of treating women like human beings. 🙄

 

[Winged Scapula]

It's just a phrase Ludacris used in "Southern Hospitality," see the video I linked above.

Its not "just a phrase" that is without meaning. It is apparent that's part of the problem here; the lack of perception about how ones words and actions have consequences.

I'm about the most relaxed women I know in regards to this, able to give and receive dirty jokes and insults with the best of the boys. So if I'm bothered by the undertones, you can better believe others are.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Ah, Ludacris - the pinnacle of treating women like human beings. 🙄

LOL..yep, that's what I was thinking.

Just because its said in a movie or song doesn't mean it isn't offensive or that its ok to repeat especially since you went back and edited your post to include the video after my comment above.

 

[DermViser]

It's just a phrase Ludacris used in "Southern Hospitality," see the video I linked above.

Just please keep it out of your speech during your OB-Gyn rotation. Your residents and female med students will nail you to the wall if they detect even a hint of sexism. They already get pissed when people don't think they're real surgeons.

 

[DermViser]

Its not "just a phrase" that is without meaning. It is apparent that's part of the problem here; the lack of perception about how ones words and actions have consequences.

I'm about the most relaxed women I know in regards to this, able to give and receive dirty jokes and insults with the best of the boys. So if I'm bothered by the undertones, you can better believe others are.

^^^^THIS. THIS. THIS.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Just please keep it out of your speech during your OB-Gyn rotation. Your residents and female med students will nail you to the wallif they detect even a hint of sexism. They already get pissed when people don't think they're real surgeons.

Well they aren't. 😉

 

[Arkangeloid]

Its not "just a phrase" that is without meaning. It is apparent that's part of the problem here; the lack of perception about how ones words and actions have consequences.

I'm about the most relaxed women I know in regards to this, able to give and receive dirty jokes and insults with the best of the boys. So if I'm bothered by the undertones, you can better believe others are.

Heh, point taken. You (and DermViser) are my seniors and superiors, and you know much more about this than I.

For the sake of my career and life, I'll never use the phrase "stank puss" again outside SDN or my closest friends who are not in the medical profession. I had no idea it was that offensive, I thought it was a normative term that referred to a woman whose vagina emitted a strange odor, which may be from trichomoniasis or whatever (I hated Microbio FWIW). I did not know it was a pejorative.

And I will watch what I say around men as well. Who knows when my allies may become my enemies...

 

[circulus vitios]

I too am interested in such a specialty.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Heh, point taken. You (and DermViser) are my seniors and superiors, and you know much more about this than I.

For the sake of my career and life, I'll never use the phrase "stank puss" again outside SDN or my closest friends who are not in the medical profession. I had no idea it was that offensive, I thought it was a normative term that referred to a woman whose vagina emitted a strange odor, which may be from trichomoniasis or whatever (I hated Microbio FWIW). I did not know it was a pejorative.

Really? <smh>

It is true that a vaginal infection can produce a foul odor. But referring to it as "stank puss" is:

a) offensive
b) medically imprecise
c) not normative outside of certain subcultures (to which you do not belong)

It is much preferred to simply say, "on examination, there is a foul odor, with/without discharge, which is consistent with <insert pathogen>."

 

[DermViser]

Well they aren't. 😉

Um, excuse me, but they are surgeons of the pelvis and female reproductive tract.

 

[Winged Scapula]

At any rate, back to the OP's question:

Ob-Gyn
Pediatric Endocrinology
or even Psychiatry (as women with PCOS often have associated psychiatric disturbances)

 

[Winged Scapula]

Um, excuse me, but they are surgeons of the pelvis and female reproductive tract.

I will give credit for being pelvic *surgeons* to Gyn Oncs. 😉

 

[colbgw02]

 

[DermViser]

Really? <smh>

It is true that a vaginal infection can produce a foul odor. But referring to it as "stank puss" is:

a) offensive
b) medically imprecise
c) not normative outside of certain subcultures (to which you do not belong)

It is much preferred to simply say, "on examination, there is a foul odor, with/without discharge, which is consistent with <insert pathogen>."

Sorry, I'm just laughing at a medical student actually saying "on examination, there is s.p."

Point is ark, there are a lot of sights, smells, vaginal/penile discharges, etc. that you may be exposed to on clinical rotations. Being able to articulate in medical speak is the most professional way of handling it. Just as women don't like to be defined by vaginal discharges, I'm sure you wouldn't want to be defined by penile discharges.

 

[DermViser]

I will give credit for being pelvic *surgeons* to Gyn Oncs. 😉

Which requires ANOTHER 2 years of training, of course.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Sorry, I'm just laughing at a medical student actually saying "on examination, there is s.p."

Its almost something you would dare a naive medical student to say on his OBG rotation, right? 😛

 

[alpinism]

I too am interested in such a specialty.

Haha you do know what type of women get PCOS?

Heh, point taken. You (and DermViser) are my seniors and superiors, and you know much more about this than I.

For the sake of my career and life, I'll never use the phrase "stank puss" again outside SDN or my closest friends who are not in the medical profession. I had no idea it was that offensive, I thought it was a normative term that referred to a woman whose vagina emitted a strange odor, which may be from trichomoniasis or whatever (I hated Microbio FWIW). I did not know it was a pejorative.

And I will watch what I say around men as well. Who knows when my allies may become my enemies...

I believe the term you're searching for is fishy.

Listen to Afroman:

I sure hope he doesn't say it around female classmates. Many of them will be on rotations with you (as are males). They can either help you or throw you under the bus.

Is it at all possible that you make such comments around your classmates and that's why you have little success in the dating arena? The immature misogynistic tones are troubling.

Im still 99% sure he's trolling. But, its that 1% of doubt that keeps everyone coming back.

 

[Arkangeloid]

Haha you do know what type of women get PCOS?

Lol nah, I didn't even know what PCOS stood for before today.

I'm still 99% sure he's trolling. But, its that 1% of doubt that keeps everyone coming back.

Not trolling mang, I'm just this craycray.

 

[DermViser]

Haha you do know what type of women get PCOS?

Im still 99% sure he's trolling. But, its that 1% of doubt that keeps everyone coming back.

I don't think he knows the type of women that get PCOS, and no he's not trolling.

 

[Flamen04]

I'm on my ob gyn rotation and have heard fellow female classmates talking about "smelly vaginas." Yet when a guy does it, it's sexist and inappropriate? Love female double standards: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/774694-fat-acceptance-movement

 

[DermViser]

I'm on my ob gyn rotation and have heard fellow female classmates talking about "smelly vaginas." Yet when a guy does it, it's sexist and inappropriate? Love female double standards: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/774694-fat-acceptance-movement

Well when you have your own vagina, it's a little different.

 

[Winged Scapula]

I'm on my ob gyn rotation and have heard fellow female classmates talking about "smelly vaginas." Yet when a guy does it, it's sexist and inappropriate? Love female double standards: http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/774694-fat-acceptance-movement

I would venture that there is a lot of difference between the phrases "smelly vagina" and "stank puss".

The former is not generally considered offensive (the phrase, not the odor).

 

[Smurfette]

I would venture that there is a lot of difference between the phrases "smelly vagina" and "stank puss".

The former is not generally considered offensive (the phrase, not the odor).

Yep, it's the phrase that's offensive and not appropriate in a medical setting. Big difference from just describing a vagina as "smelly" (which most women in medicine will not find offensive as they understand what you're trying to describe).

 

[notbobtrustme]

this thread delivered

 

[SouthernSurgeon]

At first I wondered why this thread had so many responses. Then I saw that Ark was the first responder...and it all made sense

 

[Kahreek]

ark, no jokes unless you are an attending.

Well when you have your own vagina, it's a little different.

 

[bluevirgo]

Thanks for the responses. I'm thinking pediatric endocrinology now, you guys.