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this really makes no sense. a urologist SHOULD in my opinion FIELD questions about about lesions on genitalia, i think it belongs to both dermatology and uro. uro should have some idea and maybe send it to derm. this whole rant makes no sense and makes me wonder why uro girl really went into urology? just to rant like this? im sure there are a few unusual consults. would you expect anything different in urology?
Hmmm…. My understanding is that there are only about 300 female urologists in the US. I always thought penis-envy was the motivation…
Everybody has a right to their pet peeves. It just seems kind of funny for a urologist’s peeves to be questions about penises.
Maybe a little burnout . . .
Imagine the names that people would call a male gynecologist who ranted like this. There is very little information men can get about these things, unlike women’s health issues where it is all around us. We need to be disseminating information, not hushing them up.
This is a commonly held attitude among urologists. It’s not that they’re not educable, it’s likely that these dermatological complaints are utterly boring and unsatisfying to treat.
Now the stuff about semen would seem to be within her purview. It’s also pretty dumb stuff, but such questions DO indeed fall into her area of expertise- even if the answer is “Stop worrying about your damned semen!”
I saw a television show with a proclaimed “sex expert”. One caller asked about jelly-like pellets in his ejaculate. The sex expert said she had never heard of anything like that and that he should ask his doctor. So who ya’ gonna call?
A shrink.
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