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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Yes, what you describe is the NORMAL way this should happen, what SS described is NOT NORMAL and SHOULDN'T HAPPEN. What don't you get?

[Anonymous]

Do we still feel sympathy for Silverman after the pictures of her in black face resurfaced today?

I think she's a jerk.

And since she's no shrinking violet, I seriously doubt she felt too shy to stop a dr doing something inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

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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.

THIS. I've only had female technicians do my mammograms and ultrasounds, but they have to touch you and manipulate your breasts. There's really no getting around it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yep. Along with not taking pain seriously because, "I've had 5 kids, I know pain!" instead of investigating what turned out to be legitimate concerns. Also that I would be infertile if I didn't have a kid by 30. I had a strong of them and now only go to male gynos.

[Anonymous]

One step closer to male doctors refusing to see women

[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.

THIS. I've only had female technicians do my mammograms and ultrasounds, but they have to touch you and manipulate your breasts. There's really no getting around it.

Yes, with the current technology there is no other choice. That is why it would be nice to have better diagnostic screening tools that don't involve all the handling and smooshing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

THIS. I've only had female technicians do my mammograms and ultrasounds, but they have to touch you and manipulate your breasts. There's really no getting around it.

Yes, with the current technology there is no other choice. That is why it would be nice to have better diagnostic screening tools that don't involve all the handling and smooshing.

Also, this is the only part of our bodies that I can think of that we treat quite this way. At least with a colonoscopy you go in, you get sedated, you have the procedure, the doctor takes any polyps for biopsies and afterwards you talk to the doctor directly about what, if anything was found.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One step closer to male doctors refusing to see women

If the doctor actually examined her as she is describing then that was pretty atypical. Thank God. I can't imagine a health care professional actually defending the way that was done.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yep. Along with not taking pain seriously because, "I've had 5 kids, I know pain!" instead of investigating what turned out to be legitimate concerns. Also that I would be infertile if I didn't have a kid by 30. I had a strong of them and now only go to male gynos.

Wow, that's awful. Both the female and male obgyns that I've had have been really great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do we still feel sympathy for Silverman after the pictures of her in black face resurfaced today?

I think she's a jerk.

And since she's no shrinking violet, I seriously doubt she felt too shy to stop a dr doing something inappropriate.

+1
I think it's hilarious when the loudest SJWs are found to be seriously lacking in SJ etiquette.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

I agree.

She says that he opened her robe, spread gel on her breasts with his bare hand and then proceeded to discuss her chest X-ray results with the robe still wide open (he was not performing the sonogram). The way she described it sounded clueless at best on his part.

[Anonymous]

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.

Omg seriously. Get help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do we still feel sympathy for Silverman after the pictures of her in black face resurfaced today?

I think she's a jerk.

And since she's no shrinking violet, I seriously doubt she felt too shy to stop a dr doing something inappropriate.

+1
I think it's hilarious when the loudest SJWs are found to be seriously lacking in SJ etiquette.

She's a jerk but that doesn't mean that medical professionals should treat her with any less respect than the rest of us.

On a side note, I am freakin' shocked by how many people seem to have old pics of them in blackface. In my entire life I have never known a person to wear blackface. WTH?

[Anonymous]

Who?