The worst is I saw a review someone left of him a while back that said “Do not go to this man, my wife went several times complaining of X, and he told her it was probably nothing. Well, we didn’t like that answer and got a second opinion, it turned out to be cancer.” When I had an obvious hernia, he took a look at it and said “Yeah, looks like you have a little hernia there. You could most likely just live with it, or if you really want, I could give you a referral. Up to you.” and I looked at him and said “Well, you’re the doctor, does it seem like something that needs to get repaired?” and he dodged the question, so I said to give me a referral. The Hernia specialist took one look at it and said, “Oh… yeah we really need to get that taken care of, that’s not looking great.”

I cannot wait to get away from this asshole, and men physicians in general, talking to me about my body. This is coming from another man too. Shit, statistically you have better health outcomes if you see a woman as your GP, according to some studies.