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- From: robert@unlv.edu (Robert Cray)
- Subject: Re: Women Doctors
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.215955.24475@unlv.edu>
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- Organization: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- References: <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:59:55 GMT
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- In article <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
- >again, I need data. I also get the impression from speaking with various
- >women dentists, physicians, optometrists and surgeons that women seem to be
- >much more concerned with the patient's fear, comfort, and general well-being,
- >while the male doctors I've spoken with seem to talk more about their
- >technique and various difficult cases. Again, no data.
-
- It's probably true that younger people have less of a problem with
- women doctors. I'm 27 and I don't consider that fact that my doctor is
- a women a big deal one way or the other. I only know two women doctors
- (my own (internist) and another aquantance (family practice)), and if
- anything they are more dispassionate than their male counterparts (in my
- opinion.) Here are some references that might help you...
-
- --robert
-
- TI - Physician demographics and the risk of medical malpractice.
- AB - PURPOSE: This study was undertaken to clarify which, if any,
- physician demographic characteristics are associated with an
- increased rate of medical malpractice claims. METHODS: We
- analyzed the malpractice experience of 9,250 physicians insured
- for at least 2 years from 1977 to 1987 in the state of New
- Jersey. After adjusting for years at risk, physician claims per
- year was categorized into low, medium, and high. RESULTS: Male
- physicians were three times as likely to be in the high-claims
- group as female physicians, even after adjusting for other
- demographic variables (relative risk, 3.1; 99% confidence
- interval, 2.2 to 4.4). Specialty was strongly associated with
- claims rate, with neurosurgery, orthopedics, and
- obstetrics/gynecology having 7 to 12 times the number of claims
- per year as psychiatry, the specialty with the fewest claims. The
- rate of claims varied with age (p < 0.001) and peaked at
- approximately age 40. No association was evident between claims
- rate and a physician's site of training or type of degree.
- CONCLUSION: Male physicians are three times as likely to be in a
- high-claims category as female physicians. We suspect that the
- most likely explanation for this finding is that women interact
- more effectively with patients. Understanding the reasons for the
- variation in claim rates between physicians may lead to the
- development of methods to reduce the overall rate of malpractice
- claims.
- AU - Taragin MI
- AU - Wilczek AP
- AU - Karns ME
- AU - Trout R
- AU - Carson JL
- SO - Am J Med 1992 Nov;93(5):537-42
-
- TI - [Effect of the physician's and the patient's sex on the clinical
- interview]
- AB - OBJECTIVE. To analyse differences attributable to the sex of the
- doctor and of the patient in the activities and content of the
- clinic appointment in Primary Attention. DESIGN. Analysis of
- interaction, in terms of activities and content, in 157 clinic
- appointments. SITE. General medical consultations in four Primary
- Attention Public Health Centres. PATIENTS. Those who used the
- health services on the day of the study. INTERVENTION. Tape
- recording of the appointments. MAIN MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS. The
- interviews were recorded. There were shown to be differences
- according to the sex of the doctor and of the patient in terms of
- the development and content of the interviews. The style of the
- woman doctor involved longer interviews with greater social
- content; in general sameness of sex (doctor and patient) led to
- greater mutual complementation in the interviews. CONCLUSIONS. It
- has been shown that there are differences in the activities and
- content of the clinic appointments in Primary Attention which
- depend on the sex of the patient and doctor.
- AU - Hern:andez-Monsalve LM
- AU - Garc:ia Olmos LM
- AU - P:erez Fern:andez MM
- AU - G:ervas J
- SO - Aten Primaria 1992 Sep 15;10(4):719-24
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