Do many couples attend routine medical and dental appointments together?

[momtoboys]

I have two sets of friends, both in female same sex marriages (which may not have any bearing), that attend all medical and dental appointments together. Including one of the couples goes into the dental appointment and sits next to her wife while she is in the chair having her teeth cleaned. I truly am not judging, it just never occurred to me to do that with my DH.

Do many couples do this?

Thanks.

DD2 used to get really offended in her teens, by GPs banging on about sex! She was going about endometriosis, and every appointment they asked her, if she was in a sexual relationship. She didn’t believe in sex before marriage then, and in fact was never sexually attracted to anyone. Patients shouldn’t have to discuss being asexual with GPs, who are making assumptions, based on the majority!

So you think that when sexual activity might be relevant to someone's medical condition, GPs shouldn't mention that important fact just in case the patient is offended by it?

I'm sorry, but that's absurd. Of course the GP needs to ask about sexual relationships if someone's attending with a gynae/genito-urinary complaint. It's really bloody relevant. It's not an assumption based on anything; it's a relevant question.

She didn't need to 'discuss being asexual' in any way whatsoever. All she need to say was 'No, I'm not sexually active'. There's no moral implication to that; it's literally just a relevant fact that helps the doctor to diagnose a complaint and potentially tailor treatment appropriately.

She was offended; and as she suffers social anxiety, she didn’t have the confidence in her teens to say she didn’t want to discuss it. However, she saw countless GPs for five years; they could have asked at the first appointment about sex to see if it was relevant. Why did they need to bring it up at every appointment? No GP thought it was a gynaecological problem. She was consistently told, it was normal period pain. One, our practice’s specialist in gynaecology, told her it was a bit of IBS.

After the laparoscopy, and the gynaecologist had removed extensive endometriosis, the theatre nurse told her to change her GP practice. I was there, when a GP commented to her, that she was young to have endometriosis! She’d had it five years by then!

I said earlier my elderly DOs do it. They don't actually always note down/remember who the appointment is for...