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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Women Doctors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.000203.3026@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:02:03 -0600
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- [reply to tknudsen@ics.uci.edu]
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:22:53 GMT
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- >>Does anyone else think
- >>that it is more likely that female gender is an advantage to gaining
- >>acceptance to medical school, than a disadvantage? (I don't think
- >>that this is necessarily bad, in case anyone cares. Viva diversity!)
-
- >First: I think it should be an advantage to be female for gaining
- >acceptance at medical schools. We need more females in this profession
- >to break the dominating positivistic natural science paradigm which
- >still is dominating western medicine, and it is likely that women will
- >be more able to bring in other values then men.
-
- You are insulting women in medicine to suggest that they are less
- capable of discriminating, scientific thought than men. You might think
- they would bring maternal values which will improve the doctor-patient
- relationship, but the women physicians I know do not seem to have either
- better or worse bedside manners than men.
-
- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
-