Guest Post: A Doctor on Transvaginal Ultrasounds A friend of mine is a physician who wants to speak about transvaginal ultrasounds but whose position makes it precarious to speak publicly about it. So I'm letting this doctor borrow my site for an entry to speak anonymously on the matter. Obviously, I will vouch for the doctor being a doctor and being qualified to speak on the subject. Update, 9:14pm: This post is being linked to far and wide, so we're getting lots of new readers and commenters. It's important that before you comment you read the site disclaimer and comment policy . I delete comments I find particularly stupid. Try not to write one of them. Update: 12:13am, 3/21 : I'm going to bed, so I turned off the comments for the night. I'll turn them back on when I get up tomorrow. Night! Update: 1pm, 3/21: As a head's up to people, at 8pm eastern time tonight, I will turning off the comments for this thread permanently. The reason for this is while I can spend a day moderating the thread, I can't spend the next week doing so. Sorry, folks, I have a book to write. So consider this fair notice. Thanks. Update: 8pm, 3/21: Comment thread is now closed. --  Where Is The Physician Outrage? Right. Here. I'm speaking, of course, about the required-transvaginal-ultrasound thing that seems to be the flavor-of-the-month in politics. I do not care what your personal politics are. I think we can all