Sarah Silverman spoke out for women everywhere who have to deal with the uncomfortable annual ritual of breast cancer screenings. In addition to enduring uncomfortable yearly mammograms, many women also go through a sonogram due to a condition medical professionals call “dense breasts” which can make it more difficult to diagnose breast cancer through mammograms.
Silverman is one of those women and described a creepy encounter with a male tech who may or may not have been getting cheap feels off of Silverman during the medical procedure. She gives him the benefit of the doubt, only calling his behavior unprofessional, but it sounds pretty gropey particularly given that medical centers tend to go above and beyond to ensure womens comfort in dealing with breast health.
Silverman described an unprofessional, explaining that the male technician used no gloves and applied the sonogram gel to her breasts with bare hands, and when using the sonogram device to examine her breasts he dragged his fingertips across her. He told her this was to help balance the device. After he tried to make topless chit chat with her, Sarah had it. “Then he started talking to me about my chest X-ray (I also got a chest X-Ray) and was pontificating with my boobs just out and covered in gel and cold and finally I said “Hey-can we either talk about this when I’m dressed or WHILE your doing the ultrasound? I’m not comfortable with my breasts out just shooting the shit with you.”
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