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Maybe I'm just lucky. Maybe by internist and my physician friends are zealously dedicated to following protocols, respecting patients and anticipating patients' questions and needs. Maybe I'm lucky, but I don't know why anyone would settle for anything less.
Sexual function and dysfunction are such matter-of-course concerns for OB-GYN care that it's bizarre and absurd to have to state and re-state this.
Let me put it another way: if an OB-GYN isn't supposed to discuss pre- and post-partum sexual function and dysfunction with a pregnant woman, then *who* is? A pulmonologist?
Also, a "capable but indifferent" physician is, as good studies have clearly demonstrated, just a polite way of describing a physician who's going to have defend against any number of malpractice complaints.
Once again, if your physician is as "capable but indifferent" as Ms. Williams' physician, you need to find yourself another doctor.
