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[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]

Unlike the other specialists you name, every woman is recommend to get Pap smears, breast exams, and discuss birth control just to name a few women’s health issues. Every woman. So your comparison with a gynecologist with a neurologist doesn’t connect.

Do you have a Google alert for this topic which is why you always post this kind of anti womens health stuff on DCUM?[/quote]

You don't think PCPs can do pap smears, breast exams and birth control? 
And I am all for women's health - just not the misuse of services. PCPs exist for a reason. Feeling like you are too good for a PCP and you and your family will only see specialists isn't the flex you think it is.[/quote]

What misuse?? You're insane. Millions of women go every year at the recommendation of the medical community? Is that misuse as well. sHould we all wait until we have cancer to go? My best friend's daughter died of cervical cancer at 21. SHE WAS 21!!![/quote]

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