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Hello Mr Nay, are you really a doctor? May I know what you specialize in?Actually that was the big reason O&G was not for me.
During my O&G rotation a few things :
1) Female patients always didn't want us male medical students touching them (understandably)
2) When we did do pelvic exams on female patients they would wince and grimace. My empathetic self just felt bad for them
3) Staring at the female sexual organ daily in a different context just made me feel weird. The association with the female organ just went all wrong. I didnt want to look at the vagina and think.....WORK. it should be you know a turn on.
So after that I said no O&G for me. Trouble is even if you dont want to have anything to do with that field they will still make you go through the rotation and training and test you. And I had to do it again during family medicine residency in Canada.
Whenever patients say they would prefer a female doctor to do their pap smear I happily say I will refer you to my colleague.