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[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]

A first pap is recommended at 21, regardless of sexual activity.  What would you need to specifically see a
GYN for before that? PCP can write for birth control and many can also do a pap. Paps are recommended every 3-5 yrs now, same for pelvic exams.  Most women don’t need to see a gynecologist at all and certainly not yearly unless you have a specific problem.  My mom say a gynecologist all the time, and I recall having to get a pelvic exam yearly in my 20s because doctors wouldn’t write the script without a pelvic exam, same for the day after pill, you had to get a pelvic exam to get the script.  But this is now outdated practice and it has show to not be beneficial to be given these frequent pelvic exams.  [/quote]

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