Never mind

[wbadb]

---

Members do not see this ad.

After posting my original "any advice welcome" I had a chance to view a thread started a while back, and I am really disgusted. I can't believe that in a "profession" like medicine when a male say's "I am thinking about becoming an OB/Gyn, the first thing that even his peers can think is "What a perv."! What about Primary care, follow through with a patient, and surgical procedures all in one specialty. These are a few of my reasons for considering this specialty. Yes there are perverts out there, but to go into a specialty where you deal with disease of the female genital tract as a means to satisfying your perversion is beyond twisted. Why would a man pay for medical school, deal with residency, accept the call schedule, etc. if all he really wanted was to see women naked. Give me a break people!

Thanks a lot for nothing!!!!

 

[cguidr4]

Do not be discouraged by those immature responses and watch out for Janice.

 

[nuclearrabbit77]

Originally posted by cguidr4
watch out for Janice.

:laugh
:

 

[bustbones26]

You can't blame some women for not feeling comfortable with a male ob/gyn, but that is okay, they just opt not to go to male ob/gyn's. For others, I have met some male ob/gyns that women have no problem with. In fact, in my first two years of med school, I herad straight from the mouth of many of my female classmates that they were very upset at the slim pickings they had to choose from to go see in ob/gyn in the community, they were very upset when a man ob/gyn left the practice because they said that the ones he left behind were idiots and less sensitive, even the women ones.

So do not be discouraged, if you are a professional, and carry yourself as a professional with your patient, then you will have no problems. When you are examaning the women, you are there to do a job, not to get some sick jollies, if you are, then you will surely be sued for harrassement at some point in your career.

But let me tell you some of the reasons I have heard guys say they want to be ob/gyns (disclaimer, I do not want to be one)

1) "I am a father, I love kids and it is a true privlege to deliver a baby"
2) "I hate doing surgery on men, they whine too much, women make better surgery patients."
3)" I hated family practice, I only did it for one year before I got sick of it, I hated the fact that all of my patients were old and died, I switched to ob/gyn because on the ob side, women are generally young and healthy, on the gyn side, your patients don't up and die on you."

To think that a man ob/gyn is a pervert is to think that a male urologist is gay, a female urologist is a pervert, a pediatrician is a pedophile, and a colonrectal surgeon has some unresolved freudian issues.

So do what you want, don't listen to other people

 

[Janice]

Originally posted by wbadb
After posting my original "any advice welcome" I had a chance to view a thread started a while back, and I am really disgusted. I can't believe that in a "profession" like medicine when a male say's "I am thinking about becoming an OB/Gyn, the first thing that even his peers can think is "What a perv."! What about Primary care, follow through with a patient, and surgical procedures all in one specialty. These are a few of my reasons for considering this specialty. Yes there are perverts out there, but to go into a specialty where you deal with disease of the female genital tract as a means to satisfying your perversion is beyond twisted. Why would a man pay for medical school, deal with residency, accept the call schedule, etc. if all he really wanted was to see women naked. Give me a break people!

Thanks a lot for nothing!!!!

Dr. Finkle and Dr. Story both went to med school with all of the headaches thereof, graduated, passed medical board exams just to end up with bad reputations and lawsuits. Dr. Story served 15-16 years in prison, and Dr. Finkle got lost. Like who cares.

No matter their reason for going to medical school. It's the final results that count.

 

[Janice]

Originally posted by nuclearrabbit77
:laugh
:

That's right. Watch out for the woman who knows she's in control of whatever happens in the doctor's office. That's the patient who communicates to the doctor. Oh, he knows where she's coming from. That's the same patient some doctors can't communicate with.

That's a very big laugh! HA HA HA HA!

 

[Lizzy]

Just b/c a male wants to practice obgyn does not mean that he is a pervert or is less capable of empathizing w/ his female patients. Sure, they may not have personally experienced PMS or the pain of child birth, but who's to say that a doctor must endure such personal ordeals him/herself in order to become a great doctor?? A great doctor is one who is not judgemental and treats all his/her patients to the best of his/her ability w/ respect and equality. Being a female does not automatically make you a great obgyn as some people may suggest.

wbadb - If you feel that this is the profession for you based on its qualities, then I'm sure you may make a better obgyn than some ignants on this board.

 

[GeddyLee]

Let's see here....If i wanna be a pervert, I could hang out in strip clubs. I could goto adult bookstores. I could hire hookers. I could become a womanizer and use women for sex. I could become a male nurse and work on the women's floor.

See don't all of these seem much easier, and cheaper than going through 4 years of college, kicking butt on everything to get into medical school for another 4 years, then going through 4 years of gruelling ob/gyn residency....all just to look at naked women.

Give me a break.

By the way Janice, you seriously need professional help.