My Friendly Doctor

Of all the people in LA that I love, some of my favorites are my doctors. Perhaps not totally surprising, given that in high school I loved my teachers more than my classmates and my coaches more than my team mates. I probably keep in touch more with professors and staff from law school than class mates as well. My doctors...I want to be friends with them. "My doctors" sounds like I have a team of people working on me at all times, but I just have two...my ob-gyn and my primary care doctor. They are friends with each other (from med school), and my ob referred me to my primary care. They are amazing at what they do, funny, cool and totally bad ass. I look forward to going to them because I enjoy the 5-10 minutes of conversation in their office. I just saw my ob-gyn about a month ago, and I tried to drop hints...we talked about her friends, my friends and how every patient in her office is crazy ("typical westside moms(!!)"). But our conversation stopped there...I wasn't going to ask her out on a date or anything, so I guess we'll never become friends or hang out. Maybe it's too hard to be friends with someone when you've looked at their vagina up close? Has anyone out there ever crossed that boundary?

I think I'm intimidated by the fact that she's a doctor...after all, she's supposed to maintain a professional relationship with clients. But then I thought about all my friends in Med school; someday, I'll be friends with all of those doctors. And I'm a lawyer (technically); will one of my clients someday want to be friends with me?


As an aside, is it just my doctors, or is it common for them to be unable to relate personally to what they do? My OB mentioned that she doesn't have kids because she is "crazy and can't wrap her head around it." And then I thought about Timmy's pediatrician, who is also amazing and great, and she doesn't have kids either. How is it that an OB and pediatrician end up practicing medicine, trying to bring little babies into the world and help them grow up big and strong, but don't have their own? They must enjoy dealing with pregnant women and babies enough to make it their profession. I understand if they're too busy to start a family yet (I mean, both of them work around the clock!) But it seems like neither of them want kids at all. Maybe their patients are their kids. Or do they not want kids because they see too much of them to want it for themselves as well?