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

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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.

Sarah's experience was gross and even if this had been a female doctor or tech it STILL would have been gross. Even if the doctor had gloves on, it still would have been gross. You are right, they do treat women's bodies like inanimate objects.

I'm sure there were a million and one reasons why the doctor handled the exam that way and it was probably done so that he could notice difference between the breasts and give a thorough exam. It doesn't change the fact that Sarah felt ogled and manhandled.

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Eh she comes off as attention seeking doing this on Instagram attached to a picture of her cleavage. Valid medical complaints should be done through a different channel.
Yes mammograms are awkward and you feel manhandled. Unfortunately I think that’s kind of how it is with current technology. It’s hard to examine the breasts thoroughly without “manhandling” them.

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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?

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.

She had an entire year to find a new physician. She said she felt the same last year.

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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?

SS is an outspoken assertive woman. I'm really surprised she didnt speak up right then and there at that moment given her loud personality. Or request a nurse to be present.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh she comes off as attention seeking doing this on Instagram attached to a picture of her cleavage. Valid medical complaints should be done through a different channel.
Yes mammograms are awkward and you feel manhandled. Unfortunately I think that’s kind of how it is with current technology. It’s hard to examine the breasts thoroughly without “manhandling” them.

And mammograms don't improve life expectancy. That's the thing that gets me. We are doing this why again? Women deserve better technology than this.

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A radiologist did something like that to my child and I smacked his hand away, immediately. There's no reason during an xray or US for him to be touching patients.

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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.

I've had a female GYN do/say things people accuse male docs of doing all.the.time. I don't avoid female docs, and when I hear people talk as if it's only men, it pisses me off. It's like people excusing female teachers having relationships with male students. Heck even at least one pop song indulged the fantasy of a male student gettin' it on with a hot teacher like a rite of passage. It is this line of thinking that leads people to think men don't get breast cancer. I don't know if female sex abusers are under-reported or truly outliers. I just don't think people should paint all men with a broad brush and avoid them at all costs as patients.

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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?

SS is an outspoken assertive woman. I'm really surprised she didnt speak up right then and there at that moment given her loud personality. Or request a nurse to be present.

Maybe she was shocked it was happening. The frustrating thing is when there's no witnesses. It's horrible either way.

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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.

I've had a female GYN do/say things people accuse male docs of doing all.the.time. I don't avoid female docs, and when I hear people talk as if it's only men, it pisses me off. It's like people excusing female teachers having relationships with male students. Heck even at least one pop song indulged the fantasy of a male student gettin' it on with a hot teacher like a rite of passage. It is this line of thinking that leads people to think men don't get breast cancer. I don't know if female sex abusers are under-reported or truly outliers. I just don't think people should paint all men with a broad brush and avoid them at all costs as patients.

+1 on women doctors/techs being just as guilty as men on poor/bad behavior.

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They way I read SS's post was not that she was being "fondled" but that the exam was unprofessional and lacking in respect for her as the patient - that the examiner was insensitive and showed an appalling lack of consideration for the vulnerable position a woman is in while it is occurring.

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oh please

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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?

SS is an outspoken assertive woman. I'm really surprised she didnt speak up right then and there at that moment given her loud personality. Or request a nurse to be present.

Maybe she was shocked it was happening. The frustrating thing is when there's no witnesses. It's horrible either way.

Did you read it? It said the same dr as last year. Why go back again?

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Anonymous wrote:A radiologist did something like that to my child and I smacked his hand away, immediately. There's no reason during an xray or US for him to be touching patients.

This is a pretty ridiculous statement. If he needs to move breast tissue, should he use a cattle prod?

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I think it odd she complains he was trying to talk to her about her X-ray while doing the US. That is completely normal behavior and just makes her seem like a complainer. I think this dr was damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:They way I read SS's post was not that she was being "fondled" but that the exam was unprofessional and lacking in respect for her as the patient - that the examiner was insensitive and showed an appalling lack of consideration for the vulnerable position a woman is in while it is occurring.

This is exactly it. He wasn't doing anything creepy but the whole thing was unprofessional. A female doctor or tech could be equally unprofessional.