Where do you see your GYN? Private office or hospital?

Another thread gave me the idea to ask this. My first gyn I went to, it was a private office, but now it seems they all work out of the hospital. It was like that in the last area I lived as well. You sign in on the ground floor and I guess they let the clinic know you are there. There are 4 floors of specialist clinics, the OB/GYN is on the 5th floor (first floor is reception/admitting, blood draw etc). You sit in the waiting area until a nurse comes and takes you back. I'm not sure how many OB/GYNS work out of it, mine only has 2 half days a week, one morning clinic and one afternoon one.

The first time I was there, they were way behind schedule, so had almost an hour's wait. I got talking with a couple other women in the waiting room. One of them was seeing the same gyn and had seen him before, so I asked her what he was like, as I am always apprehensive about seeing a new doctor. She said he was really nice, which helped a lot. And she was right, he is probably the nicest doctor I've ever had.

My gynecologist has always had her own private office with a nurse to accompany her.

Wonderful subject. My current doctor is in a group practice with 2 other docs and nurse practitioners such that the exam rooms are down a hallway. There are 5 exam rooms along with a room for drawing blood and several bathrooms along the way. It's not as massive as it sounds compared to the HMO that I had been frequenting. There, one encountered the kind of setting that has already been described. I felt more nervous then less so now but still its a moment of personal sensitivity when called and following the nurse back into the exam room. It's not long before one is undressing and reacquainted with the chill of the exam table's paper and fidgeting with one's gown or drape. I was thinking how I felt if I still had my panties on and how much anticipation there was until the nurse would help remove them at the direction of a doctor. There is such a sensation as one's panties slip away for such an intimate examination.

Well you all take care..........Merry Christmas

Julie

Well..I had a 5 other gyn. All of them are practices at the hospital. 3 of they had a nurse who was help them and she was receptionist. Sometimes was other bathroom place-I remember that in one of them toilet was outdoor (in front of the gyn office) and I should was undressed near by gyn (he written records).

Mine is in a private office. She is a GP as well. But I do know that she sometimes sees women in a clinic at the hospital. I have never been seen at the hospital.

My gyn is in a private office building next to a large regional shopping mall. She is on the fifth floor of a six floor building. There are three other female doctors and two nurse practitioners with many nurses and medical assistants. You see the medical assistant first to get your height weight etc and get you into a gown in the exam room. Then nurse comes in and then finally the doctor.