ob-gyn

aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying (or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexing

bedeviling, haunting, plaguing

abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling, shaking up

daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving

allaying, alleviating, assuaging

appeasing, conciliating, mollifying, pacifying, placating, propitiating

calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)