{"id":4810,"date":"2013-11-27T06:49:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=4810"},"modified":"2015-05-18T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:58:50","slug":"gynecologists-may-treat-men-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/gynecologists-may-treat-men-after-all\/2013\/11\/27\/","title":{"rendered":"Gynecologists May Treat Men After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/27\/health\/gynecologists-may-treat-men-board-says-in-switch.html?hp&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for gynecologists who screen men for anal cancer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A professional group that certifies obstetrician-gynecologists reversed an earlier directive and said on Tuesday that its members were permitted to treat male patients for sexually transmitted infections and to screen men for anal cancer&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s always impressive when a group swiftly reverses what is widely perceived to be a wrong decision, so praise to the\u00a0American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology for their flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Now as for <em>obstetricians<\/em> &#8212; sticking with a females-only policy makes all kinds of sense. Just ask the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/1058426-junior\/\">governor of California<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aNfsJuv0bJU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news here for gynecologists who screen men for anal cancer: A professional group that certifies obstetrician-gynecologists reversed an earlier directive and said on Tuesday that its members were permitted to treat male patients for sexually transmitted infections and to screen men for anal cancer&#8230; It&#8217;s always impressive when a group swiftly reverses what is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9],"tags":[59,423],"class_list":["post-4810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-policy","tag-anal-cancer","tag-hiv"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}