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This is interesting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/19/women-really-are-better-doctors-study-suggests/?utm_term=.12e90a928120 https://www.wa
by Rapzid 10y ago
This is interesting https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/19/women-really-are-better-doctors-study-suggests/?utm_term=.12e90a928120 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/19/women... .
I imagine that if male doctors became so less preferred that one tried to pass himself off as female... The patients would robbed of their right to make an informed healthcare choice. That would be considered a type of fraud?
What of discrimination then? What happens when studies show females are better doctors than males? As a male, I would certainly feel compelled to choose a female physician in such a world in the absence of other quantitative data to make a comparison. Surgeons are a little easier to vet with well-documented outcomes..
- judahmeek 10y agoActually, studies already show that females make better doctors: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2593255 http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullart...
- rokosbasilisk 10y agohave you actually read the article? It was a very specific study on elderly care, not general out patient and very suspect. I would not even remotely conclude female or male doctors are better than each other from it.