Female Co-workers

How many at your office see the same gynecologist because you have the same health insurance coverage t work? Do you compare experiences with each other? Have you ever recommended your doctor to a co-worker? Ever see a co-worker or someone you know while waiting in the waiting room?

Probably not the response you’re expecting, but one day I happened to have a brief and slightly uncomfortable conversation with a female co-worker who happens to see the same OB/GYN as my wife. See my wife worked at the same place as me before we got married. She still had some friends there and I would run into them every once and a while. The OB/GYN that my wife saw for the birth of our second child like to keep a picture wall of her with the mothers and babies she's delivers. Several months after the birth, I ran into one of these co-workers that my wife was friends with. She happened to see the picture on the wall of my wife and our new baby. She was so excited to have seen the picture that she just had to share with me that she had been to her annual exam and happened to see the picture of my beautiful new baby. Somewhere in this conversation there was discussion about how nice this particular doctor is and such. While I could not agree more about how beautiful my baby was and how great this doctor is, the whole time I was thinking, "My God I now know more about this female co-worker than I ever needed to know." While my wife still sees this doctor, we thankfully no longer have an HMO.

As a side note, while my wife was pregnant I frequently went with to her appointments. In retrospect, I'm lucky not to have run into a female co-worker while waiting with her. That would have been slightly more uncomfortable since the wait times for this particular doctor could get fairly lengthy.

I actually do have the same OB/GYN as a coworker even though we're not in the same insurance network... she just happened to bring up how great this doctor was and I was like "omg that's my doctor too". Its not weird or anything though... we talk alot about pregnancy and stuff so it doesn't seem awkward at all.