Boys with a female pediatrician?
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Anonymous
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I'm new to the area, and I think I found the perfect pediatrics practice. It's really close to the house, they take our insurance, and all the doctors and nurses there I've talked to are lovely and we're very on the same page with parenting choices. My only concern is that it's all women, and I worry that might lead to problems when my son is a bit older. It wouldn't bother him now (our last pediatrician was a woman as well and he loved her as much as my daughters did), but he's only nine and who knows how he'll feel in three or four years.
I just don't want the kids to settle into a new practice, then have to switch again in a few years because my son is uncomfortable. Is this actually something I should consider or am I overthinking this? I know that doctors are doctors, and this place really would be perfect. Can anyone who has teenage boys confirm if this would be a big deal for them or not? Did they ever want to switch from a female doctor? |
Anonymous
| My son has only ever had female doctors and he's in his 20's. Same with my stepson, whose mom IS a doctor. |
Anonymous
| I wouldn’t bring it up, doctors are doctors. |
Anonymous
| My 16yo has had the same doctor since he was a few weeks old. I have offered to switch to one of the males in the practice, but he prefers to keep his doctor who he has known his whole life. |
Anonymous
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My 17 year old son has been seeing his female pediatrician for years. We all love her, she has sons about the same age as my son, and she has a caring yet direct and humorous style that makes her very relatable. It's been great.
Previously he had male pediatricians when he was much younger, and there was no noticeable rapport. |
Anonymous
| I just asked my son who's 14 and still sees a woman (and she's thorough) if it bothered him and he said "I'd rather have a girl feeling my junk than a guy" so take that as you will. |
Anonymous
Do boys regularly get their "junk" felt at the pediatrician? That's never happened for my daughter. |
Anonymous
| My boys have had the same doctor since they were born, and she is great, with sons of her own. |
Anonymous
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Look at it this way, most pediatrics practices now are a majority women (and quite a few are all women), yet 50% of the population of kids are male. If female pediatricians were that big a problem for boys, there wouldn't be so many practices where that's the only option.
I think girls tend to want female doctors, while boys don't tend to care one way or the other. |
Anonymous
| Woman doctors take more time with their patients. Is that sexist? |
Anonymous
| I am a female with a male gynecologist. My teenage son has a female pediatrician. I don't see either as an issue and neither does he. |
Anonymous
I think you are being silly. |
Anonymous
| We just switched to a new practice and I asked my 15 year old son if he cared whether he saw a male or female pediatrician. He didn't. (At the old practice, he only saw female docs so I guess he's used to it.) |
Anonymous
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My boys now 20 and 21 had a female ped and now have moved over to my practice which is all female providers.
They have never event think about it. |
Anonymous
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I have B/G twins. At their last appt when they turned 12, they offered to have a female doctor work with DD and that was nice for her.
Which is all to say, I definitely don't think you need to worry about it until puberty at the very least. |