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Subject: Standing up for your rights

Author:
Leroy

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Date Posted: 02:52:07 08/23/09 Sun

Has anyone here ever had an experience you believe was unfair but you stood up for yourself? As a longtime lurker I remember reading a few experiences where a patient was being treated unfairly, usually having something to do with wanting a doctor, nurse or tech of a particular gender to do "intimate" exams or procedures.

On other blogs, such as Joel Sherman's blog have literally hundreds of patients, mostly men, who comment about how they have stood up for themselves or later realized they should have. Common topics are unwanted chaperones, male sonography techs, unwanted nurses or assistants during intimate exams, unethical triage nurses and other similar things.

I would like to avoid seeing insults from those that may disagree with what some people believe. If you must state your opinion please try to refrain from throwing insults at others because they may think differently than you. Mostly I would just like to hear some experiences. I don't care to hear if someone believes somebody else is a homosexual. Please try to keep this thread clean.

One of my own experiences has to do with my male dermatologist wanting a female assistant present for a full body mole check. As a retired Federal Government worker I have very good insurance that gives me a large amount of freedom as to who my doctors can be. Knowing that I can easily switch doctors I began to get dressed to leave after my dermatologist insisted the assistant be present for the entire exam and he gave in and dismissed the assistant.

I've had many more similar experiences but I would like to hear if anyone else has had the guts to stand up for themselves. I think I remember James describing a similar experience he had. Other guys like Ray, Jimmy and Mike describe experiences like that on Joel Sherman's blog.

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