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Expectations of what will happen during consultations for family planning influence the choice between clinic or general practice, or between known or unfamiliar doctors.

Patients may attend a community family planning clinic because they have heard that patients have a ‘thorough examination’ there. On the first attendance the patient may look disappointed when she is told that the examination of that (sexual) part of her body – her genitals and breasts – can be left until later. She wants an examination of this part of her about which she has unspoken anxieties -perhaps doubts that it is ‘good enough’ to be shown to a partner, or that, untried, it may not function well enough, or might become out of control.

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