Least favorite medical specialist

Over the years I been to many different medical specialists - my least favorite are urologists as I feel they want to do too many invasive tests. Okay, perhaps just because I need them...

Mine would be rehab docs. In my opinion/experience, they most likely weren’t in the top of their class in medical school.

Oncologist.

Without a doubt

Not so much specialist but my least favourite medical professional is a Dentist

Eye doctors and dentists.

I’ve had bad experiences in both medical situations and I prefer to avoid them. 😅

Because I go into an almost virtual panic mode if anyone tries to access my throat, I would have to say that an otolaryngologist (a specialist who treats conditions affecting your ears, nose and throat) to be my least favorite specialist.

Even so, any specialist that needs to perform some kind of endoscopy through my throat to access lungs or who knows what else, would rank equally.

If a doctor needs an internal look at part of my body, then please through my anus, urethra or even laparoscopy, but never anything through my throat. I don't care how small a tube or instrument, but God no.

And anything to do with eye surgery, even lens replacement, makes me quiver like a jellyfish with fear.

Opthalmology is probably mine too. I'm good with most things, but not eyes.

Ophthalmologist, although I like the doctor well enough and what he's doing may save my vision. But many of us are old enough to remember the childhood chant:

Cross my heart, hope to die,

Stick a needle in my eye,

If I ever tell a lie.

And now I'm apparently paying the price for every lie I told, because they're sticking a needle in my eye every five weeks.

Not part of the usual annual urologist exam, but a couple of years ago the doc sent me to get an ultrasound of my prostate. In hindsight (no pun intended) I should have looked it up on the internet so I knew what to expect. But they put the sending unit up your butt and there was no enema prep either. Now if that isn't bad enough, the tech was one cute lady in her late 20s.

Any surgeon. That generally means it is a last resort and everything else has failed.

Any surgeon. That generally means it is a last resort and everything else has failed.

In a way I understand, but with most serious surgery there is the anesthesia and that essentially means not being aware of anything. Thank goodness. I surmise it the awareness of certain things happening that makes for the fear.

I'm terrified of the dentist

Hate anything dental. Would prefer colonoscopy prep to having dental work.

I always said the dermatologist inflicted the most pain...that is until my most recent dental work. I like both people but hate to see them in clinic.

Stick a probe in my bum, or give me a bladder enema as part of urological exam, and I'll survive it with some em-bare-ass-ment. Even the gastro exam is almost a pleasure with an enema prep as an adjunct to any laxatives.

Those other surgeons have given me relief from joint and spine issues.

I always said the dermatologist inflicted the most pain...that is until my most recent dental work. I like both people but hate to see them in clinic

Agree 100% like my dentist as a person. Just had a root canal and had residual pain for 3 weeks as well as some temporary TMJ. The pain before was less and I have never had TMJ.

Dentist for sure.

Most painful so far, for me, has been the urologist. Needle biopsy of the prostate. No picnic.