To complain about a GP calling me this?

[lolit]

He called me a good girl while examining me. Should I complain or am I overreacting?

I'm grateful that you're reporting. Only you know how uncomfortable you were made to feel. Sorry that you had to experience that.

Not really. Just think how kink went mainstream after Fifty Shades.

Highly unprofessional imo so yes, I would report them to the GMC. It's their role to ensure GP's maintain standards for good medical practice. Patronising language is not good medical practice.

I managed to work in the NHS for 42 years without ever saying "good girl" to a patient over the age of 5. It's not hard.

Why not get him struck off while you're at it 🙄

You would have had a chaperone then? No male doctor should be doing any kind of personal exam without a female chaperone. What did they say?

OP said the GP was old enough to be her father. This means he's probably of an age where the expression good girl to an adult female has absolutely no sexual connotations other than from dirty minds that think of porn on hearing the term. I've been called good girl in the past from health professionals & all it felt to me was that the person cared. Make of it as you wish. Nobody likes intimate examinations. If you go to a GP with the view it's sexual it's says more about the patients mind than the GPs who spend their lives saving lives.I genuinely hope this report gets binned.

that's very unprofessional.
and I'm someone that isn't offended by the term fat. I am fat. it's an accurate description. just like slim, or muscular is accurate for some people.

BUT it's unprofessional for a medical professional to call someone fat. overweight is acceptable. heavy, even. but a lot of people would be hurt by being called fat.

I think men who call grown women 'good girls' or similar and patronising and gross 🤷 maybe you don't but that's my gut reaction. Hardly an overreaction.
Ive had quite a bit of it in my job but I tend to respond with a sarky comment and a blank look personally

It's a horrible saying
I get customers at work saying it to me when I've done my job like I'm some kind of child instead of an adult that's perfectly capable of my job
And it's never women that are saying it to me funnily

@Bellyblueboy

I have referred to adults as love etc, by mistake, just as I have the 'lesser' children. My point was that we all make mistakes when speaking. I agree with the PP and their irony comment on your postings. It's easily done to say the wrong thing and then kick yourself afterwards!

Next time a response of "good boy well done" should do it!

A midwife called me that during labour. Could have punched her!

Erm...thanks? What a strange comment.

Strange? I was sarcastically congratulating you on your mellow, laid back approach to life. Though if we were all of this persuasion, things like votes for women, say, probably wouldn’t exist.

Yes. Agree with this

Switch it round. A bloke getting called a "good boy" while being examined...

That's horribly rude and infantilising!

And you can complain after the fact. You were too shocked to react at the time, which is a very normal response.

SPOT ON

You're joking right?

I just read this to my husband who used to work in healthcare and even he said it’s unacceptable. If you are in a funeral position being examined and an older man speaks to you like this , not in a friendly but a suggestive manner then that is 100% a reason to complain! I wonder how all the other women calling this young woman out would feel if it was their daughter ?
This is exactly why Men get away with stuff like this still in this time and age ! @lolit I am sorry you have been made to feel so uncomfortable

Worryingly, I suspect not.

Post needs more "context" really to make any judgement IMO....

Oh well if Bradley says it. Op id have loved to have had the quick thinking To say where’s the dog? As obviously dr x you were talking to the dog that’s in here and not an adult.

If the GMC get one report of an inappropriate remark that upset a patient, then they will not pursue it beyond perhaps asking the doctor about it. But if they get twenty or a hundred reports of a particular doctor making embarrassing remarks during an intimate examination, or perhaps the patient being unsure why the examination was done, then that may be the only way this pattern of behaviour is ever revealed.