Originally Posted by caroladybelle

If you only knew how bad most of my patients look (or smell or sound), male or female........................

I think this is the truest answer one could give to the OP. Even the hansome ones look not-as-cute when they're vomiting uncontrollably or have explosive diarrhea! But seriously, I've seen many male nurses and dr's after they have assessed attractive female pts. And I promise, NOT ONCE, have I heard them make a lewd remark/comment.

Well since some once else said what I was thinking, the reason I asked WHY the OP wanted to know was to see if after explaining themselves I would still be sitting here thinking "don't feed the trolls".

I really don't know how to answer this so you would understand. When it comes to the job I never think in that manner. I don't have to work at or tell myself I'm on the job, it just comes naturally. I have to straight cath a certain lady every shift so you know I am having to look. All I think about when I have to do it is how much easier my job would be if she would only consent to an indwelling and I could save myself 10 minutes of work. I have never, or have I ever heard my male counterparts discuss a naked female body. On the other hand, more than once I have listened to and been talked to about a males penis size. I have been seen by a female dr more than once and it didn't bother me a bit. If she talked about me after I left, I could care less. Oh, I didn't get aroused either. Now if I met her in a social setting and she asked me to get undressed, it might be a different story. :hatparty:

A troll is the name given to someone, in this case the OP that says things of an inflammatory nature in order to get a rise out of people and upset them.

(to those members who were wondering )

Originally Posted by fergus51

The only thing I think you might be able to relate it to in your life is if you saw your handsome young son naked. He might be young and handsome, but you wouldn't be turned on by it because he's your son

...but then again maybe she would .based upon everything that Ive read that shes written...

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Nurse, Male or Female, what does it matter if they are compentent and professional???

I don't mean to sound unkind, but, male nurses have a hard enough time without someone taking a hit on them. I am a female nurse, I have worked with several great male nurses who I would trust my life with.
If you were laying on a table dying needing surgery, would you say "wait, I want a female doctor and nurse????" I have been in nursing for many years and I have worked with both male and female nurses, and it appeared to me that the male nurses try harder for acceptance by all patients. Don't get me wrong, because I think that 99.9% of nurses are professional and compentent. Would you prefer an incompetent and unprofessional female nurse to a compentent and professional male doctor/nurse?????
And when male doctors do "female exams, they have a female nurse present in the room with them.
Get real, all men's minds don't live in the gutter.
I know that there have been some incompentent doctors and nurses, but, one bad apple does not spoil the whole barrell!!!
And when you become a nurse, you have criminal background checks done, on everyone, both male and female.

Originally Posted by greensleeves

I am not a nurse. I am a female who is, from time to time, a patient. I am going to ask a very indelicate and politically incorrect question, but I am serious and I would like a serious answer.

I am the mother of 2 healthy young males in their 20s. I am the sister of 4 (yes!) healthy not-so-young males. I have known males all my life, and I do not understand how the same males that one night are drunk at a frat party and trying to see, touch, expose, etc. any female genitalia they can, or the same males who salivate over Playboy and Hustler one minute, can the next morning just turn off the sexual interest and look, touch, whatever, all the vaginas, clitorises, breasts, buttocks they want to, and not get turned on. How does this work? Is male sexuality really such a an easily controlled thing, that men can turn it on and off at a moment's notice?

It seems that for the past few millenia, women have been warned that male sexualty is so powerful, that the mere sight of a woman is enough to drive a man to rape her on the spot. I think this is the basis for the strict female dress codes in Muslim countries, if I am not mistaken. In our own society, a flimy T-shirt or short skirt has been used as a rape defense.

But somehow, the same men who can't be trusted with a woman in hot pants can be trusted to spread a woman's legs and do lots of interesting "medical" stuff.

I'm not looking to start fights, but I honestly don't understand how this works. Are male medical personnel specifically trained how to sublimate their sexuality and not get turned on by naked girls and women, or is male sexuality a lot less powerful than we have been led to believe?

Because I don't understand how this can possibly work, I do not and will not have any male medical practitioners. Period.

I look at my two sons, healthy and perpetually horny, and I am appalled that if they were medical students, nurses, etc, they would be given free reign to look at and touch all the naked girls and women they wanted to.

Again, I'm serious. How do you all handle your own sexuality?

pardon me for intruding on 'male thread territory' but after reading op i had to go the distance
i wonder how she controled the delivery room where these boys were born...no males at all that would be most unusal...if she chooses no male mds, male nurses, males scrub nurses..etc she would be choosing health care in a really dumb way...the compentence factor is not decided by gender no matter what field you are in
and thank you...i have met a million trolls but never knew what to call thelm
i am going to be smarter than i was when i got up

Originally Posted by greensleeves

I am not a nurse. I am a female who is, from time to time, a patient. I am going to ask a very indelicate and politically incorrect question, but I am serious and I would like a serious answer.

I am the mother of 2 healthy young males in their 20s. I am the sister of 4 (yes!) healthy not-so-young males. I have known males all my life, and I do not understand how the same males that one night are drunk at a frat party and trying to see, touch, expose, etc. any female genitalia they can, or the same males who salivate over Playboy and Hustler one minute, can the next morning just turn off the sexual interest and look, touch, whatever, all the vaginas, clitorises, breasts, buttocks they want to, and not get turned on. How does this work? Is male sexuality really such a an easily controlled thing, that men can turn it on and off at a moment's notice?

It seems that for the past few millenia, women have been warned that male sexualty is so powerful, that the mere sight of a woman is enough to drive a man to rape her on the spot. I think this is the basis for the strict female dress codes in Muslim countries, if I am not mistaken. In our own society, a flimy T-shirt or short skirt has been used as a rape defense.

But somehow, the same men who can't be trusted with a woman in hot pants can be trusted to spread a woman's legs and do lots of interesting "medical" stuff.

I'm not looking to start fights, but I honestly don't understand how this works. Are male medical personnel specifically trained how to sublimate their sexuality and not get turned on by naked girls and women, or is male sexuality a lot less powerful than we have been led to believe?

Because I don't understand how this can possibly work, I do not and will not have any male medical practitioners. Period.

I look at my two sons, healthy and perpetually horny, and I am appalled that if they were medical students, nurses, etc, they would be given free reign to look at and touch all the naked girls and women they wanted to.

Again, I'm serious. How do you all handle your own sexuality?

I guess this could be the case if the person was some sort of psychopath "a la Ted Bundy" who gets off on people in vulnerable situations. But if that's the case it's not limited to the medical profession. Most people are socailly trained to know this is not appropriate behavior. Many males(and females) may think about sex ALOT but geez there not ravenouus animals that are attracted to anything and everything. Most men are perfectly capaple of controlling them selves. And since when are males the only ones limited to being sexually devient (sp?). There are some pretty strange women out there to.

And like someone stated the average Patient is not that attractive when they are sick? Brad Pitt = Hot. Brad Pitt with explosive diarrhea and vomitting ect = not so much.

WHY are you asking this?

I have been going to a really great physician for about 25 years. She is the type of person who should be cloned and put in every clinic... During my annual physical, there is complete comfort. We are both professionals. This year, however, while she was checking for prostate problems, I told her: "We have to stop meeting like this. People are starting to talk!" She was still chuckling when the appointment was finished. Then she zinged me about my weight, telling me: "You know all you have to do is get out and walk! ... to Los Angeles!!" (We live in Michigan!)

I am hoping I am not intruding on this thread for male nurses.... but this OP really irritated me.

I am not yet a nurse, I'm in my last semester of pre-reqs hoping to get into the nursing program next Spring. One of the main reasons I am pursuing nursing is due to the experience I had as a patient.... with wonderful caring male nurses. The men who cared for me were competent, caring and completely professional. They treated me respectfully and I never ever felt anything but secure in their care.

They explained produres to me, held my hand when I was scared and made sure I was properly cared for at all times. I would never hesitate having a male nurse care for me and I look forward to someday working alongside you guys.

My hope is that all the male nurses reading this will not take to heart anything that the OP said. There are many more "patients" who feel like I do than OP.


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