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- From: nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel)
- Subject: Re: Women Doctors
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:26:25 GMT
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- In article <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
- > It seems that the rate of malpractice suits are lower for women, but
- >again, I need data.
-
- You would need to take into account differences in areas of specialization.
- Women physicians are still most likely to be psychiatrists, pediatricians
- and pathologists and I suspect the malpractice suit rate is relatively
- low for at least two of these specialties. Obstetricians suffer from
- particularly high rates of malpractice suits and women are more
- underrepresented in this field. In general, surgical subspecialties are
- the target of more malpractice suits than medical subspecialties.
-
- So any meaningful statistics would be within a particular specialty. You
- might also find that women who are in the "riskier" specialties have lower
- rates of malpractice suits because only the best (or, at least, most
- motivated) women survive the isolation and discouragement. This is
- conjecture on my point by analogy to the experience of women in other fields
- that they're underrepresented in (e.g. women engineering students generally
- get better grades than men in the same classes).
-
- Miriam Nadel
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