My lifetime of frequent moves in both location and employment has led to my making service of a fair number of different health care providers to take care of my womanly bits over the years.
After my extensive, non-scientific, research, I have come to the conclusion that my comfort during the exam is directly related to the comfort of the stirrups.
If the stirrups are of a style and placement such that my I don't notice them you can do whatever you want with my female parts and I'm not going to care one bit.
If the stirrups dig into my feet, or force my legs into some weird sort of position, it doesn't matter what you do, it will annoy me and I will be counting the seconds until I can sit up like a normal human being again.
I do not know what the differences in the stirrups are to cause this change. I do know putting a terry cloth towel over the stirrups does will eliminate the "holy shit, cold" factor, but does nothing to the bar digging into the heel of your foot.
And if women were comfortable when it was time for them to have their annual exam, perhaps they'd all be very diligent about getting them, and maybe that would be the first step to fixing our broken health care system (preventative care and all) so I think you should all go make the change now.
Or at least before the next time I'm due into your office.
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