{"id":1512,"date":"2019-01-10T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:44:56","slug":"candy-sedation-power-tools-the-connection-between-these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/middays\/2019\/01\/candy-sedation-power-tools-the-connection-between-these-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy, Sedation &#038; Power Tools. The Connection Between These Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Would going to the Gynecologist be a better experience if it was made pretty?<\/strong> Honestly, probably, but we women have to go.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We scooch down, deal with the momentary discomfort, which can actually turn in to days or weeks of discomfort and then&#8230;WE MOVE ON! Right?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So here&#8217;s the other side of the coin. A hospital in New York City is hoping their <em>&#8220;medical man cave&#8221;<\/em> will help make prostate exams less scary for men.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The space has framed team jerseys on the walls, TVs programmed to whatever sports their hearts desire: Jets, Knicks, Rangers and Yankees games &amp; a coffee bar.<strong> A COFFEE BAR!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Doctors describe it as a <em>&#8220;male friendly environment&#8221;<\/em> they&#8217;re hoping will encourage men to take their prostate health seriously and get checkups more often.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Well, our\u00a0OBGYN offices don&#8217;t have a coffee bar, a cosmetics counter or shoe tree on the way out. We don&#8217;t even call the experience taking one for the team, because if we didn&#8217;t go, life as we know it would stop. Who else is going to have the babies?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Would going to the Gynecologist be a better experience if it was made pretty? Honestly, probably, but we women have to go.\u00a0We scooch down, deal with the momentary discomfort, which can actually turn in to days or weeks of discomfort and then&#8230;WE MOVE ON! Right?! So here&#8217;s the other side of the coin. A hospital","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[499,498],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middays","tag-gynecologist","tag-obgyn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:19:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/middays\/2019\/01\/candy-sedation-power-tools-the-connection-between-these-things\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}