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| - quick quiz.... what's worse than going to planned parenthood?
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ready for the answer?!
here it is: going to planned parenthood and having about the most judgmental nurse and doctor EVER!!
i support what planned parenthood is all about, but it would totally awesome if their staff was on board too. i have gone there several times in the last few years for exams or if i needed birth control and didn't have insurance at the time. most of the time, the staff is great. they are cheerful and seemingly happy to be doing their job. however, on two occasions, i had the most judgmental doctor and nurse duo ever. i wish i remembered their names, but i don't. i felt like i was in an interrogation room right from the start. they scrutinized my answers to most of their really personal questions; almost as if they thought i were lying. as if that wasn't enough, when i asked for birth control, i was subject to the rapid fire questioning again. really, if i'm there, and i'm asking for birth control, does it matter how many sexual partners i "plan" to have? at the time, i really felt intruded upon. it was none of her business if i was conducting elaborate orgy parties or i had been married for 10 years. i didn't want to get pregnant, and that should have been enough.
so why three stars? because i think this is a valuable service. most of the time their providers are great. at the end of the crappy visits, i still got birth control prescribed to me. do doctors have bad days? i am sure they do. do they sometimes have to take jobs they don't want to just to pay the bills? i'm also sure they do that as well. it certainly felt like that was the sort of doctor i was sitting with on those two occasions. one that didn't want this job and was perhaps having a bad day. bottom line is... it's not super professional. it happens, though.
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