Do gynecologists examine their wives?

I’m curious about this. Actually, I’m curious about a lot of things gynecologically speaking.

I’m guessing if you’re a gyno you’d want to be the doctor whose wife is spreading her legs in front of. But I don’t know.

I mean, if my wife were a doctor, there’s nobody else’s gloved and lubricated finger I’d want up my ass for my annual prostate exam than hers.

I would

As a physician for over 50 years, now retired, I gotta say at some time or another all of us examine and treat family members. And we all know and have been cautioned that it's a terrible idea! Diagnosing and Treating a kids otitis media or wife's UTI or URI is common. That said, doing a pelvic exam on a wife or prostate exam on a husband in anything approximating a real life clinical exam kinda induces an ick factor in me. The same barrier that separates patient care from my medfet interests seems to kick in--it just makes it seem off limits somehow. My medfet brain and my real life clinical brain don't mesh well. I'd love to hear from other RL physicians on this topic.