Haven't we met?

Last Friday night I was at a jam at Mr. Andrew Laviolette's house. There were a number of women there whom I had never met. One of them thought she recognized me from somewhere and mentioned so. I responded with, "Well, have you had a pap smear lately? 'Cuz that's what I've been doing 8 hours a day." My humour was recieved with uproarious laughter by all the women. I then mention that I have been doing a clinical placement at a sexual health clinic. Next I proceeded to tell everybody about my paying job, that is, my job teaching pelvic exams to medical students, nurse practitioners, and midwifery students. I find it quite ammusing to tell people about this because of the fact that I use my own female anatomy to do so. "The clencher of this fact," I shared with the woman, "is that I will be teaching my fellow classmates how to fit women for diaphragms... Although, my classmates don't know it yet."

I think this blog will be my way of telling them.

How might one feel about practicing pelvic exams on one of their peers. I think this could be an uncomfortable situation for some people, and I don't blame them. When I was signing up for my first pelvic teaching, I was careful to choose a teacher that I didn't really know. For me, it was the concern that the teacher would feel weird about me choosing her. As a teacher, though, and speaking from my own personal perspective, I can tell you that this is not a problem. I think it will be nice to teach people that I know for a change.

Conversely, though, I know other students who simply do not feel comfortable seeing a friend in this capacity. Both perspectives are fine with me. More than anything, I wan't everybody to feel comfortable.

Maybe my jokes about pap smears make some people uncomfortable. I try to gage the situation before I do it. I've never noticed anybody being offended. I just love to make people laugh.