I also have friend he’s a MALE OB-GYN NURSE and what a woman said to him in labor & delivery had the whole floor silent. He's 6'3", ex-Marine, tattoos, and holds women's hands for a living while they give birth. What happened last week made him want to quit nursing. My friend Alex is a Labor & Delivery nurse . Not many men do this job. He chose it after his sister died during childbirth 7 years ago. He said "No woman should ever feel alone in that room again." He has a 4.9 star rating on the hospital site. Moms request him. He's that good. Last Tuesday, a woman comes in - 28, full term, 9cm dilated, screaming in pain. Emergency, baby's heart rate dropping. Alex is the charge nurse, first one in the room. He says, "Hi, I'm Alex, I'm your nurse, I'm going to help you and baby." Her husband looks at him and says, "Hell no. Not a man. My wife is not having a man touch her down there. Get a female nurse." Alex is professional. He says, "I completely understand, let me get my colleague. But right now your wife's water broke and there's meconium, we need to check her NOW or baby could inhale it." The husband stands in the doorway blocking him: "I said get a WOMAN. This is against our beliefs. No man is looking at my wife." The wife is on the bed CRYING, "Please help me, please, the baby -" The husband says to his wife: "Shut up, you're not letting a man touch you. We waited for a woman."