Re: gynocologists are wrong!
From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:55:46 -0500 (CDT)
I agree but I will add one thought. There must have been some reason a
15 year old went to the gynecologist.. Just a thought.
Dr. M
At Tue, 27 Aug 2002, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
>I'm not even going to give you the satisfaction of replying to such a
>ridiculous and obviously inflammatory post.
>
>To everyone else, doctors, forum members, etc.:
>DON'T GIVE THIS PERSON WHAT THEY WANT! JUST IGNORE HIM AND HE WILL
>EVENTUALLY GO AWAY!
>
>We all know the truth, and we all know that so many women would be dead
>if they didn't have that "exam" done, "just in case." This girl was at a
>gyn's office for something specific, otherwise she would have been at a
>general practictioners office so OBVIOUSLY they would do an exam.
>
>At Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Todd wrote:
>>
>>My girlfriend recently told me she had been to a gynecologist at the age
>>of 15. I was appalled by what she told me. She was made to endure a
>>full exam, and afterwards the doctor told her it wasn't necessary but
>>was done "just-in-case." Why gynecologists feel the need to subject
>>girls to an exam of this nature just on a whim is beyond me. I don't
>>think many realize just what these doctors are doing. My girlfriend's
>>and I'm sure many other girls' first sexual experience was not with a
>>person they loved, but with an older male stranger. Her virginity was
>>technically taken away by this stranger, who tore her open, and
>>inflicted pain on her in a sexual manner. She had to lay exposed and in
>>a demeaning position, while a strange doctor fingered her and touched
>>her intimate areas and embarrassed her. If this was any other situation
>>but at the hands of a "doctor" it would be considered molestation. It
>>sickens me to think about it, and that people actually think this is ok.
>>What gynecologists are doing to girls is WRONG! It is molestation. In
>>any other case a man doing these sorts of things to a young girl would
>>be put in jail, but just because he's a "doctor" its ok, even if the
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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York
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