He Wants Her to Quit Being a Doctor 🚩 | Reddit Reactions

TL;DR

A doctor reacts to Reddit AITA posts involving medical professionals, judging whether boyfriends, husbands, and patients crossed boundaries.

Key Points

• 1.Letting med students observe a gyno appointment is not wrong. The boyfriend calling them 'random college kids' is a red flag — US med students already hold 4-year degrees and have very low attrition rates once accepted.
• 2.A husband sleeping on the couch until his OB/GYN wife showers is a mild overreaction. The doctor-host notes that during 24-hour on-call shifts, a 15–30 minute shower may consume precious sleep time, making the request sometimes unreasonable.
• 3.An 18-year-old boyfriend is not wrong for believing men can be gynecologists. His girlfriend called him a pervert for preferring a female doctor for his own care, then sicced 16 friends on him via DMs — Reddit and the host agree she is clearly in the wrong.
• 4.The host's core take on male gynecologists: gender cannot bar someone from a medical profession. Patients may have personal preferences, but one person's comfort cannot dictate what careers are available to others, which the host calls 'not feminism.'
• 5.A young woman asking her boundary-violating mother to leave during a gynecology appointment is fully justified. The mother ignored repeated requests, forcing the patient to ask the doctor directly; the doctor complied, and a potential endometriosis diagnosis followed.
• 6.The 'he wants her to quit being a doctor' post involves a neurologist whose stay-at-home husband broke down after one weekend alone with their 9-week-old. He suggested she extend maternity leave or work from home; she snapped that she'd never have agreed to the child if she knew he'd back out.
• 7.The host disagrees with Reddit's consensus that the husband is solely at fault. She argues you cannot fully know how you'll handle being a stay-at-home parent until you live it, comparing it to her own difficult experience with a nomadic lifestyle she thought she'd enjoy.
• 8.Reddit's suspicion that the husband sabotaged the condom to force the pregnancy shifts the host's view. If intentional, the husband is clearly at fault; the host admits she had been too naive to consider that angle when initially reading the post.