Eliminate stirrup, improve compliance?
CMAJ 1997;157:1346
The prosaic picture of a stirrup on the cover of CMAJ (Sept. 1, 1997) makes this retired GP wonder why the many women who might be offended by the slightest sexual slur have not forced physicians to relegate this antiquated contraption to the scrap heap. Might not distaste for a procedure that requires undignified subjection to such unnecessary restraint contribute to the noncompliance in cervical cancer screening that concerned your contributors?
When I was practising, I used the platform that pulls out from most examining tables, including those in the case room, where an appropriate "flat drape" is available for most pelvic procedures. It is puzzling that female patients and the increasing number of female physicians have not championed this more comfortable alternative.
William D. Panton, MD
Burnaby, BC
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