OBGYNs Stir Up Controversy

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/walter-brasch/53190/obgyns-stir-up-controversy

OBGYNs Stir Up Controversy
by Walter Brasch | December 15, 2013 - 9:35am

It took a lot of outrage by scientists, physicians, and the public, but a gynecologist in Boston will not lose her board certification.

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Actually, Dr. Stier is an extremely competent physician. She’s also an associate professor at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her problem is that in the course of some of her ground-breaking research about anal cancer, she treated men.

That’s right. The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology had said that to get its stamp of approval, its members must treat only women. It magnanimously allowed a few rare exceptions—emergency care, family planning, fertility testing for man and woman couples, and the treatment of a sexually-transmitted disease, but only if the male was a partner of a female patient already being treated by the gynecologist.

Every other medical specialty board in the U.S.— there are 24 of them—can treat men and women. That includes proctologists and urologists.

[RC]

1. I bet the usual suspects do not wade into this one.

This doesn't fit their misogynist world view.

[Demeter]

2. Can't think of a single valid reason for such a policy

and neither can they, I'll warrant.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Doctors have the strongest unions in America

Good for them, I guess.