GP displaying family photos, children's pictures dedicated to 'daddy' or 'mummy'

I think the offended lady probably needs to talk over her feelings of disappointment and sadness with a therapist of some sort. I don't mean that flippantly, it's a big issue to come to terms with.

GPs need to seem approachable to anyone who walks in their room within a couple of minutes. A couple of kids paintings and a photo of GP at the local petting zoo is a world away from when Dr's maintained a God complex and people died of embarrassment rather than mention impolite symptoms.

I had 2 failed IVF cycles and day in the same waiting room as the ante natal clinic
That's insensitive

So far 92% think YABU and I do too. It’s bizarre to think anyone should have to pretend to not have a family, no matter who they are. (Except perhaps a fertility/miscarriage clinician would be careful, but even then, it’s none of the patients business what they choose to have in their work environment really).

Totally over sensitive and really rather ridiculous.

well you have to navigate the world full of pregnant women, babies, children etc etc etc

Even if you have had a miscarriage, let alone multiple, people still have their lives. They can't all adjust the world because of that, hard as it may be to accept.

I'm more surprised that someone got a face to face appointment.

Your DIL needs to look away or find another GP if she can.
Isnt a GPs job hard enough without tiptoeing around sensititivities?

Surely having five miscarriages would make anyone a bit oversensitive? You'd have to be pretty cold to not be bothered by it.

I have experienced pregnancy loss and I would love it if my GP did this. It would actually make me feel like he got what I was going through even more, because he clearly recognised the importance of family.

Get a grip. That is all.

The GP may also have faced infertility issues as well. Just because they now have photos of their children doesn't mean you know how they 'got' those children.

As someone who has suffered fertility problems, this is ridiculous! I could perhaps see the point if it was a specialist fertility Dr but a GP?! They're too busy to think if anything in their office might potentially offend a patient, on a case by case basis, depending on their ailment. YABVVU.

No, GPs are humans and shouldn’t need to hide every aspect of their life.
Should they never get up from their chair and walk across the room incase a patient in a wheelchair gets offended?

My OH has pictures in her office, my sister has pictures in her office, why can't a GP? I'm sorry but YABU.

I had 4 miscarriages in a row and I could not have cared less if my GP had family photos on their desk. One of my best friends is a GP and the hours she works I wouldn’t begrudge her some personal items on her desk one bit. Kindly, you’re being oversensitive. I know it’s hard, I actually found seeing pregnant women very painful at that time more so than even seeing a baby, but these are things you can’t escape and certainly can’t police.

Yes, she is asking this. HTH

Yeah I’m sorry - it must be really hard, but I don’t think GPs should have to be conscious of not flaunting their fertility in your face. What else should they worry about? Covering their hair so as not to upset patients with alopecia? Wearing baggy clothes so overweight patients don’t feel like they’re showing off their healthy weight? You can’t expect a GP to be conscious of something like this. In the same way that friends and family announcing their own pregnancies aren’t doing it to rub your nose in it. That’s just life and goes on around us while we struggle with our own. That’s not to say it won’t be upsetting but so is seeing a pregnant woman or babies in the waiting room, or even a pregnant GP. Sorry if that sounds harsh, it isn’t meant to be. Its just putting it in perspective.

Oh ffs 🤦🏻‍♀️

What the fuck? A blooming thankless job helping people day in day out and can’t have a little family photo or card on the desk?

Gently I think YABU, and I’m someone who has experienced infertility and never had a child. A GP’s office is their personal workspace, it’s not like a supermarket checkout or building society cashier’s window, and they can have personal stuff there if they want.

What an absolutely ridiculous and entitled thing to say/think. People can’t pretend not to have children in case it upsets someone experiencing fertility difficulties. I get that it’s an emotive subject but your friend is being very unreasonable.

Is this for real?
Genuinely, are you actually asking this?

I think YABU. They are not doing that to remind people of how fertile they are, probably more to remind them of their family who they are probably working long hours away from/possibly their motivation to stay in a difficult and demanding job.

You’ll be offended by everyone with a child. I think you’re being emotional and sensitive