It can't be avoided.  Once a year you make the trek to the gynecologist's office for the annual exam.  For various reasons, the whole experience is extremely unpleasant for me, and yet I go, because I try to take care of my health.  And hey, I have health insurance!  And it pays for the annual exam.  Lucky me, I don't even need a referral to see my gynecologist.  Though I do get to pay the higher copay for "specialists".  This is especially maddening as my primary care physician, a woman I respect and dearly love, could do the exam for me - and does, for many of her other patients - but my…
