The gender of the doctor as a child.

Were you interested in the gender of the doctor as a child, or did you not care? I was a shy child. I was always examined only by female doctors. I wished there was a male doctor where exposure was needed. I had no embarrassment in front of men. But our children's doctors were mostly women. Several times I was able to choose a doctor. My sister didn't take me to a male doctor because she didn't feel comfortable there. Mom generally said that a male doctor could scare me if I had to get naked.

Hmm very interesting topic, and pertinent too (same word in english?), nurses mostly are women, and pediatric doctor are often women.. (maybe prejudice of me!!), especially when they're young and beautiful, it's sometimes embarassing for a boy to being medically check up by a woman..

It's not so embarrassing for me, few time it happen to me, a black woman just give an eye to my penis, and I was in panty, she just slide a second the panty.

As a kid ages 0-14 my pediatrican was male, then I had a female..for ages 14-15. And after I turned 15 she send me over to a GP PCP. Who was my doc untill he was trasnfer to a different Town, now his PA is my PCP.

And for girls? Does it embarass her to have male or female doctor? Just answer us, ladies?

I suppose it's not embarrassing if you know and trust the doctor, whatever his gender is.

Ah, please; just explain what the sigle mean, it's not always clear..

But DrC, you talk as woman, you're a couple so? Your gender appear male.

GP is Gyneco Practician, right? And PCP or PA?

GP is usually intended to mean a General Practitioner, or family doctor. PCP I think is a Primary Care Provider(?)

GP is Gyneco Practician, right? And PCP or PA?

GP = General Practitioner. Usually an internal med or family med doctor.

PCP = Primary Care Provider. Similar to GP. Also, some women use their gynecologist as their PCP

PA = Physician Assistant

NP = Nurse Practitioner. PA & NP are similar, but there are differences that I'm not qualified to go into. They can do exams and prescribe medicine, but legally not everything that an actual doctor can do. These can also be a PCP.

When I was a child, all the way through my teenage years (1970s-80s) there weren't any women doctors, at least not in the area where I grew up. Even after I had moved in young adulthood to a larger city, women doctors existed but were few and far between and tended to be OB/GYNs.

the nurses are mostly women and the pediatrician is often women.. (maybe a prejudice on my part!!), especially when they are young and beautiful, it is sometimes embarrassing for a boy to get a medical examination from a woman..

It has always bothered me personally.

It doesn't bother me that much, it doesn't happen that often to me, a black woman just looks at my penis and I'm in panties, she'll just slide her panties down for a second.

At a normal inspection, everything is so. Another thing is if there are certain medical indications. Sometimes for half an hour I had to be naked or with my panties down. Surrounded by young women and girls. Becomes in very piquant poses.

I suppose it's not embarrassing if you know and trust the doctor, regardless of his gender.

As a child, I did not go into such professional details. What they said, they did.And if you have a choice, a doctor, a man or a woman, who will you choose? Considering their similar professional experience.

I never thought about the doctor's gender as a kid. I only saw male doctors until I was in my 30s. I don't recall any exams where I was exposed until I was age 15 for a gynecological exam. I only had to undress from the waist down. I also wasn't asked if I preferred to see a woman.

The exam itself didn't make me uncomfortable. The doctor was kind and gentle. I was only uncomfortable because my aunt was standing there watching and I was living with her at the time.

As a child, I was examined by doctors of different sexes. This is not a problem for me. At the age of 5-9, I was regularly examined by a dermatologist, male. The examination was always done naked.

At the age of 10-15, my mother took me for regular check-ups with a female pediatrician. I had to strip down to my panties for the medical examination. My mother always "reminds" the doctor to examine my genitals at the end of the examination. I then had to lower my panties down.

I didn't like it. Not because I was ashamed of a female doctor. Not because I was ashamed of my mother (my mother saw me naked during this period). I was ashamed of being examined like a small child in the presence of my mother.

But DrC, you talk as woman, you're a couple so? Your gender appear male.

Nope, last time I've checked, I was all male.

I don’t think as a child I even registered the doctor as a man or woman - it was always just ‘the doctor’. I had a male GP as a child, and then a female GP when I was a teenager.

They were all male when I was young. As far as I knew there was no such thing as a woman doctor, or a male nurse in those days… not saying this was good; it was just the way it was.

I always preferred women doctors as I felt more comfortable. Something about being naked and exposed to a man felt wrong to me

My mom alway took me to a male doctor. I really never had experience with woman doctor until I was an adult

Growing up I never Cared about the gender of my doctor, I found The experience embarrassing regardless. However, I only Had male doctors up until the age of 20. That fact has a lot to do with my I prefer male play doctors today. Although I’m straight, having a male dr feels more “realistic” to me and brings back some of that embarrassment.

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We had a family practice doctor. He was male.

I didn’t have a choice and it really didn’t bother me the sex of the doctor but I didn’t like my step mother taking me and then staying in the room watching and asking questions until I turned 16 and I could drive my dad said I could take myself.

My parents took me and my siblings a number of different doctors, including to a large clinic that had several doctors working there. We had mostly male doctors with one female doctor. I don't think it really made a difference to me.

I had a male doctor until I was seven, and then I told my mom I wasn’t comfortable having a male doctor anymore. She switched me and my brother over to a female doctor after that. I’d say that was the age I became very aware of female vs male bodies and just wasn’t comfortable being exposed in front of the opposite sex anymore.

I had about two male pediatrician and a female one. They all did the examination with completely naked patient. Male always did a n accurate genital exam (retraction of the prepuce, examination of the glans, testicles) while the female takes only a look. i dreaded also her for the painful injections she did on my butt.

I was examined by the same Dr as the rest of the family. Ours was an old man, quite strict.

When I was a child, the sex of the doctor didn't matter to me. At the age of 5-9, I was examined by a dermatologist, a man. I was completely naked during the examination. At the age of 10-15, I had my genitals examined regularly by a female pediatrician.

But then I preferred to be examined by a man. At the military commission I was examined by a female doctor. I had to take off my panties. The woman was examining my genitals. This was the first time I was examined through the rectum. These days I prefer to be examined by a woman.

Were you interested in the gender of the doctor as a child, or did you not care?

As a child gender was of no issue to me. My parents made the decision of who we went to and if they felt we would be taken care of I had no say. As long as the doctor was nice…that was my concern.

The pediatrician my mom used to take me to was male and, in my opinion, that only added to my feeling of being a bit intimidated by the examinations. I was an extremely shy child and always scared when I needed to go get checked (or vaccinated!) although the doctor did his best to calm me down or distract me from rather unpleasant steps during the examination. I went to the same doctor until I was 15 or 16.

My pediatrician was a man and a member of my extended family. We always had to completely undress. It was significant to me that he was a man, I'd have much preferred a woman. I hated it.

Always male.

The doctor's gender as a child didn't really register with me then, I don't recall ever giving it a thought. I had a male pediatrician who I saw until 9 or maybe 10. At 12 my mom switched me to a female family practice doctor, who I saw through my teens. By then I was becoming aware of my body, having entered puberty and the differences of the opposite gender. As a teen I was glad I had a female family doctor for my exams, as it was embarrassing enough with her.