Sarah Silverman blasts her male doctor on Instagram for fondling her breasts

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Um, I assume a nurse was in the room too... So nothing happened.

Something ‘happened’ you dense idiot.

DP. Well, something happened. Whether it was an appropriate exam or something creepy seems very much open to interpretation.

Another DP...if there was no nurse in the room, why didnt she stop the exam or refuse to proceed until there was a nurse present?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I only go to female doctors.

Female docs are also guilty of this. Why do you feel safer with them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I only go to female doctors.

Female docs are also guilty of this. Why do you feel safer with them?

Because 99.9% of the time, it's men who do this shit.

[Anonymous]

It's a gross experience. They manhandle bigger breasts, in particular, at these things.

I sure hope they come up with better diagnostic screening tools soon because this crap is pretty intolerable.

[Anonymous]

The only weird thing is that he wasn't wearing gloves when he put the gel on.

When I get a breast exam in the doctors office, I honestly can't recall if they wear gloves or not. You would think since they are manually feeling for lumps they would need the sensation.

I also got sonos immediately following my mammo bc have dense tissue. The sono tech always wears gloves when applying the gel. I think Sara is exaggerating. They squeeze the gel out of the tube and it plops on your breast. Then they use the sono stick to apply/spread the gel. No hands involved. But sometimes a gloved finger or hand might touch your breast---they have to move it around and press down to get the images. NBD.

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There’s zero excuse for this doctor (1.) to not have a female nurse present for all breast exams and (2.) to not wear gloves while administering the gel for the ultrasound.

These are pretty basic protocols in 2019 for any male doctor. The dude sounds like a total creep on a power trip. If he’s doing this to a wealthy celebrity, can you imagine the crap he pulls with women who are not wealthy, powerful, or don’t have a public voice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a gross experience. They manhandle bigger breasts, in particular, at these things.

I sure hope they come up with better diagnostic screening tools soon because this crap is pretty intolerable.

But "manhandling" because the tools are crappy for bigger breast and this is needed medically is incredibly different than a doctor behaving improperly. A colonoscopy ain't fun, but it ain't assault either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Was it a doctor doing her mammogram or a tech?

I've never had a doctor do a mammo on me, and each tech has been a woman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a gross experience. They manhandle bigger breasts, in particular, at these things.

I sure hope they come up with better diagnostic screening tools soon because this crap is pretty intolerable.

But "manhandling" because the tools are crappy for bigger breast and this is needed medically is incredibly different than a doctor behaving improperly. A colonoscopy ain't fun, but it ain't assault either.

Proper bedside manner is to wear a glove and have an aide in the room. Proper bedside manner is to describe everything you’re about to do PRIOR to doing it, so the patient can be mentally prepared and ask questions. This has been done for years with my doctors, both male and female. Further, my doctors always wear gloves when doing a manual testicular inspection. If they can inspect my nut sac for lumps with a glove, i don’t see why they can’t do the same for a breast.

Too often doctors treat their patients like an automobile at the mechanic’s shop. It costs nothing to speak with you words and tell patients why & what the doctor needs to do. In this case, I believe Sarah and the doctor is a total creeper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was it a doctor doing her mammogram or a tech?

I've never had a doctor do a mammo on me, and each tech has been a woman.

She was at an ultrasound specialist because she has dense breast tissue. This wasn’t a typical manmogram, but a follow up visit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Um, I assume a nurse was in the room too... So nothing happened.

Something ‘happened’ you dense idiot.

DP. Well, something happened. Whether it was an appropriate exam or something creepy seems very much open to interpretation.

Another DP...if there was no nurse in the room, why didnt she stop the exam or refuse to proceed until there was a nurse present?

Because she wanted to complete her exam that was checking for cancer and not to have to wait weeks to come back for a new appointment? You people are awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a gross experience. They manhandle bigger breasts, in particular, at these things.

I sure hope they come up with better diagnostic screening tools soon because this crap is pretty intolerable.

But "manhandling" because the tools are crappy for bigger breast and this is needed medically is incredibly different than a doctor behaving improperly. A colonoscopy ain't fun, but it ain't assault either.

Proper bedside manner is to wear a glove and have an aide in the room. Proper bedside manner is to describe everything you’re about to do PRIOR to doing it, so the patient can be mentally prepared and ask questions. This has been done for years with my doctors, both male and female. Further, my doctors always wear gloves when doing a manual testicular inspection. If they can inspect my nut sac for lumps with a glove, i don’t see why they can’t do the same for a breast.

Too often doctors treat their patients like an automobile at the mechanic’s shop. It costs nothing to speak with you words and tell patients why & what the doctor needs to do. In this case, I believe Sarah and the doctor is a total creeper.

I’ve had these exams and others and I’ve never had some guy dragging or pressing his fingers on me. And there’s never a second employee in the room - just the one respectful, professional employee. Even for a pelvic ultrasound.
This guy is disgusting, inappropriate and unprofessional and should be fired.

Gross!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Was it a doctor doing her mammogram or a tech?

I've never had a doctor do a mammo on me, and each tech has been a woman.

She was at an ultrasound specialist because she has dense breast tissue. This wasn’t a typical manmogram, but a follow up visit.

I had dense tissue too. Never had a male
All gynos women too - by choice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I only go to female doctors.

Female docs are also guilty of this. Why do you feel safer with them?

Because 99.9% of the time, it's men who do this shit.

Female doctors have done and said some of the most sexist crap ever to me. I’ve had them judge me for being sexually active, tell me that my female-related problems were all in my head, treated me like an annoyance because I was upset over a miscarriage, and push the choices they made for their bodies onto me. In college one female obgyn even tried to convert me to Christianity.

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I think she let him off too easily. Spreading the gel around her breasts with his hands instead of the wand is very weird, even more so that they were ungloved.