As other have mentioned this seems to be rehashed in one form or another over the years I have been a member here. I expect it's difficult for a non -medical person to understand how we as medical personnel can separate our medical fetish from our medical work life.
Base urges are not situation specific. You can't turn them off and on based upon the situation. You can resist those urges, but they still exist.
This statement typifies your lack of understanding about what a medical professional has too do on daily basis. When you have a patient , your first priority is to try and ascertain the nature of their illness and then formulate an investigatory and treatment regime and re-evaluate the effectiveness of your interventions in a timely manner.
Have you ever been in a situation where life and death decisions have to be made in a time critical manner I can assure you that my main focus is aimed at keeping you alive , my mind is focus on being calm , rational and thinking in a clear focused manner in formulating a plan on intervention , treatment, re-evaluation etc. I can assure you I 'm not thinking of any base urges as you put it .
An analogy may help you understand a bit more , before I entered the medical field the sight of blood made me feel somewhat woozy , the first time I had to deal with a major haemorrhage I just got "on with it" , never felt woozy so as you suggested I should not have been able to turn it off and should have felt woozy and unable to do my job in a professional manner.
As I have always said as soon as I put on my scrubs , my focus is on working in a professional manner to ensure the safe well-being of my patients. I cannot imagine how you think that my thoughts are of a sexual nature when dealing with patients regardless of their state of dress.
I have been in the medical field for close to 30 years and have never had a patient ever expressive any concerns about my care. I have had many female patients who have requested me as they feel very comfortable with me and value the care, compassion and professionalism I exude when caring for them.
Think what you may , But I can say with all honesty nothing sexual ever comes into my mind when I'm working and it never will as far as I'm concerned. I did not enter the medical field to "see people naked" so sexualizing a patient does not come into it.
Just for your information Sexualization is to make something sexual in character or quality, or to become aware of sexuality, especially in relation to men and women and is linked to sexual objectification.
Sexualization occurs when "individuals are regarded as sex objects and evaluated in terms of their physical characteristics and sexiness.
Since I don't regard any of my patients as " sex objects" sexual thoughts will never ever in my thoughts .
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