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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven’t read the article yet but not at all surprised.

Went to a new cardiologist recently - flirty and fratty at AGE 55 so it couldn’t even be chalked up to youth/lack of experience. Mentioned my relationship status - which wasn’t relevant to what was being discussed (wasn’t about support at home etc. Started a sentence with “since you have your shirt off . . . .” Uh I was in a gown not naked and I was only in a gown bc your nurse said it was needed for an accurate EKG. Honestly I was surprised he didn’t cop a feel - which he didn’t, the exam was respectful. And the bar has gotten so low that I find myself thinking - he’s REALLY credentialed/experienced, top hospital, he didn’t cop a feel — is the frat boy attitude SUCH a big deal? Jury is still out on that one. So if this is how 55 yr olds are behaving w a fully awake patient, I can imagine 23 yr old male med students.[/quote]

RN here -- there are definitely cardiologists out there like this. It is a field that attracts frat boy types - albeit super smart ones and they get away with it bc they are super smart, often the best ivy/UCSF/Stanford/Hopkins kind of credentials. Reading your description, I immediately thought did you see 1-2 of the ones I work with? At least for the guys I work with, they aren't inappropriate physically but it's like they don't care that being flirty with a young woman sitting there in a gown is not flattering to her; she's not there to ask you out on a date!? That being said there are many that ARE not like this -- very respectful, humble, conscious of the fact that a woman has to lay there with breasts out in front of a stranger. Pls find one of the latter -- if you had to see this guy in a pinch, that's fine; at least you got good care but you don't need to put up with this for the long haul. Sadly not nearly enough women in this field as opposed to in GYN.[/quote]

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