Sarah Silverman Calls Out Creepy Medical Tech

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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I had a shitty time at my mammogram appt today. I have to get an ultrasound after my mammograms because I have dense breasts (insert joke here) and this radiologist — the same man I had last year — I do not like him and here is why: He opened my gown and put gel on my breasts and smeared it around with his bare hands. 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” Okay so — he smears the gel on with his hands and NO GLOVES on and when he glides the ultrasound wand thing over my breasts he drags his fingers on them and it fucking bothers me. Again, AS I TOLD HIM LAST YEAR, I said “Hey! Do you need to be touching me with your fingers?” He said “No”. And he pulled them off of me. Then he added “I do that for balance.” I said “Well I believe in you and I think you can do with without your fingers on me” Look, I truly don’t think he was getting off on it, BUT it is his job to be aware that this is vulnerable for a woman. Wear fucking GLOVES – this isn’t a date. For him to be so arrogant that he didn’t even internalize the problem when I said something to him about it last year is obnoxious and probably a subconscious power thing if we’re getting deep. That was my last mammogram with this dude. Or any dude. Look. I’m a grown woman and I’m fine. But this guy does this with everyone and I know that personally it took many years into adulthood before I spoke up for myself. It’s uncomfortable and too easy to think it’s all in your head. And arrogant fucks like this doctor take advantage of women’s socialized instinct to not speak up. All this to say speak up. Trust that thing in your gut that tells you this shit ain’t right. ♥️

A post shared by Sarah Silverman (@sarahkatesilverman) on Feb 6, 2019 at 3:53pm PST

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