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Why Appointment Length Is a Clinical Variable, Not a Luxury
The average U.S. specialty visit runs about 18 minutes. For a routine annual, that can be enough. For three years of unexplained pelvic pain, a decade of unmentioned low libido, or painful sex that's slowly changed a marriage — it structurally isn't. Dr. Rahman answers the question underneath the concierge question honestly: this isn't about pampering. Time is a diagnostic tool.
Gynecologist, Pelvic Floor Therapist, or Sexual Medicine Specialist: Who Actually Treats What?
You've described the same problem to three different providers and left with three different referrals. Gynecologists, pelvic floor therapists, and sexual medicine specialists each bring a completely different lens to the same body — and when those lenses are siloed, women fall through the gaps. Here's what each specialty actually treats, and why integrated care at The GSM Collective changes that equation.