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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teens don't need to go to the gynecologist. Gyne's are specialists who you see if there is an issue.

Their regular doctor can handle questions about birth control / sex etc. [/quote]

Disagree. Mine hasn’t gone yet, but I plan on taking her this summer before she goes to college. There was a long thread about this a few weeks ago.[/quote]

[b]It’s really hard and long waits to be seen by a gyn as a new patient with no issue.  [/b]Don’t waste their time and take up needed spots to others.  If all your teen needs is the safe sex and birth control options talk (and a prescription), the pediatrician or family doctor are completely qualified and do this all the time. [/quote]

One way to avoid this is to build a relationship with doctor before an issue presents itself. Like, perhaps when you’re 17/18.[/quote]

So you are going to have her meet and build a relationship with every kind of specialist just in case down the road she has an issue? Bizarre. She doesn't need to see a neurologist or a cardiologist or a gynecologist or an internist or a hematologist or a psychiatrist as a teen to build a relationship in case she has a future health issue.[/quote]

That’s not the same.  Almost all women will need an Ob/Gyn throughout their lives.   I don’t think I would trust the pediatrician to be up on the newest birth control and what’s best for each patient.  [/quote]

Sure, but for a teen, it may be decades before they have a need for a GYN specifically.[/quote]

What?????? How can so many of you be this ignorant about your own health????[/quote]

If my PCP was male or not well versed in women’s health, I would go to a GYN for pap smears and such.
If my PCP is female and well versed in women’s health and able to provide well-woman exams & Pap smears, able to provide prescriptions for contraceptives and a referral to specialists should I need one, why do I automatically need a GYN?[/quote]

Because they are NEVER as versed in women's health as the GYNs. There is a reason the specialty exists. The only reason that PCPs offer pap smears is because they know people like you will likely not go to GYNs and not get them at all. [/quote]

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