Life is hard when you’re a male gynecologist. Apart from having to face the constant assumption that you’re a creep who paid hundreds of thousands of medical school dollars to look at vaginas all day, patients’ growing demand for female doctors who won’t assault them.
But, what about female urologists, the presumed ying to male gynecologists’ yang? Do women whose job it is to finger prostates, palpate testicles and fix limp erections face the same sort of stigmas and challenges that men who work with women’s bodies do.
While it’s famous for erectile dysfunction and medically mandated prostate milking, urologists also work with kidneys, bladders, the pelvic floor, and in some cases, the colon.
In fact, women see urologists too, often for the same reasons men do fertility, sexual dysfunction, incontinence, prolapse, bloody urine, kidney disease and certain forms of cancer.
On the flip side, a small percentage of male patients actually prefer to be seen by female urologists. This is because they’ve had traumatic experiences with men in the past and feel safer around women. Sometimes, they even confess it’s easier to talk to female doctors about sensitive issues
