novembre

I am in my mid-20s, and a few months ago I saw a new gynecologist. The visit was otherwise as good as a gynecological visit can be, but he seemed reluctant to give me a breast exam. I have a history of breast cancer in my family, and I also had a benign lump removed from my breast a couple years ago. I figured all of these things, along with the fact that I thought it was a standard part of the check-up, would warrant an exam. But his thoughts on the matter were that my breast surgeon, who I see for annual checkups, could do a better job at this than he could, so he simply didn't touch them. All three of the previous gynos I've seen have just gone ahead and examined them without any kind of discussion about whether or not they should.

I also saw a new breast specialist/surgeon recently since my other one moved out of the area, and she wants me to balance her with a gynecologist every 6 months and be fully examined at those times. Now I feel like I need to find a new gyno or I'll need to awkwardly request that this one examines me at my check-ups. Since I don't really know why he didn't want to at the last check-up, I don't even know if I want him examining them at all.

Basically I'm just wondering if it's normal for a gynecologist to explicitly forgo breast exams with the idea that someone else can do them better, or if this was genuinely strange.