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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: [fe]male doctors
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Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 05:18:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 05:18:32 1984
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Male doctors don't have a corner on lack of sexual sensitivity.

When I developed urethritis a few years back, I went to my health
clinic and was assigned a doctor who (incidentally to all but this
discussion) was female.  Since gonorrhea is always a possibility in
such cases, she questioned me a bit about my sex life (which was
quite monogamous at the time).  She was certainly knowledgable, but
when she wanted to find out whether to do a throat culture for
gonorrhea she asked in stern tones, `you don't ever have oral sex,
do you?' I said I did, and she shook her head and looked disgusted
(and I don't think it was because she had to do an extra culture).

I cannot fault this doctor for her competence, as my understanding
is that gonorrhea should be suspected in any case of male urethritis.
And she did give me proper treatment, both for the possible (so far
as she knew) gonorrhea and for the non-specific urethritis it turned
out to be; she also insisted that I have my girlfriend get treatment.

But I'll never forget just how loathsome she seemed to feel about
oral sex, and how she treated me as if I had done something so *dirty*.

		-Ed Hall
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