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Originally Posted by Jamie89
Ok thanks both. It's not something I've ever really thought about before but thinking about it now, I can't imagine feeling a preference of the gender of my doctor, say if it was a prostate exam or something where a male doctor might understand better what it's like to go through one. So I get where you're coming from Livia I just struggle to really understand it I suppose since I don't feel it myself. Maybe bots is right and it's more a male/female thing. Makes me wonder if a part of it is actually due to women being more likely to be shamed over their bodies, feeling judged by men, general objectification of women in society compared to men, and all of that having an impact.
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Quite possibly Jamie, also as BOTS said women tend to have to spend time with Doctors for womens stuff a big percentage of the time they spend at the Doctors in general. My GP is female and I find when I'm trying to explain things to her she knows exactly what I'm talking about first hand where as it's different if I have a hospital appointment and have a male Doctor it's more of an awkward conversation for me
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