Excerpt from Eros Modestica, GENTLEMEN DONâT LOOK UP LADIESâ SKIRTS Â February 14, 2014
âThe most searing indictment of male gynecology is the book by Dr. John M. Smith entitled Women and Doctors (The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992). After spending nearly twenty-five years in gynecological training and clinical practice, Dr. Smith paints a dismal picture of the womanâs specialist. âMale gynecologists, like all men, go through the kind of âattitude settingâ that occurs in the proverbial locker rooms while they are growing into manhood.â Dr. Smith, whose practice was in Colorado Springs, says that âIt is common and acceptable among practicing gynecologists to speak about their patients bodies, sexual behavior, or medical problems indiscriminately, in terms that are demeaning and reflect a lack of kindness and respect.â (p. 27) Becoming more explicit, he charges them with eroticizing the medical scene: âIt is a rare male who is able to see women day in and day out, examine their bodies, hear details of their sex lives, and not only never have a lascivious thought or abuse that access but always remain clinicalâŚâ (p.29) He confesses that âI have had a colleague invite me to do an exam on one of his patients under the false guise of a consultation because âshe has a body you wonât believeâ.â âI have seen a physician walk out of an exam room and tell a hallway full of doctors and nurses about the disease his married patient had contracted as a result of an affair. I have seen more than one gynecologist walk into an operating room where another doctorâs patient was already asleep for surgery, lift up the sheet, admire the patientâs breasts, and continue his conversation without pause.â (p.27) Dr. Smith concludes dramatically: After twenty-four years of medical education and clinical gynecological experience, it is my opinion that males should not be gynecologists. The role properly belongs to women.â (p.29)Â
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