Apparently, what they teach you in medical school is falling by the wayside. First, you can’t ask about guns. Now you can’t take a proper sexual history:
A few years ago, when our daughters were 13-ish, I was sitting in the field hockey bleachers with a friend. She confessed that she’d just had an unsettling experience at the pediatrician’s office.
Seems that in the course of a routine physical, the doctor had shooed my pal out of the examining room, saying it was time for a “private” conversation with her daughter.
He brought in a nurse, and the two of them spent some time talking to the girl behind closed doors.
Afterward , the girl told her mother that the doctor had wanted to know whether she was sexually active.
My friend was livid. She thought she’d been blindsided by a doctor who, at the very least, should have warned her that he wanted to have a little sex chat with her child.
