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- From: kenealy_d@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Women Doctors
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:06:06 GMT
- Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
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- References: <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
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- In article <92361.102433MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
- >
- >I am looking for any sort of data/statistics on how patients feel about
- >women doctors.
-
- In my experience patients feel less concerned about sex than competence
- and empathy. Most patients seem to have a 3rd sex reserved for doctors most of
- the time but may choose gender for specific problems (eg genital). Perhaps
- because of socialisation, men are more particular about who they show their genitalia
- to than women. Patients' tendancy to express preference for a particular sex is as much related to their own experiences of
- their own or opposite sex as with doctors. I have heard many women relate bad
- experiences with female doctors and would not blythely assume that women in
- general prefer women doctors.
-
- Having said that, one thing for sure is that any data will need to come from the patients
- themselves. Anybody, including me, who talks on their behalf is immediately
- suspect!
-
- David Kenealy
- Male Doctor.
- ps 50% or more of New Zealand medical graduates are women.
-