Tag: gender in medicine

• The Feminine Perspective?

  “Men and women think differently, doctor,” a patient said to me recently, shaking her head in response to some requested advice from me. “You of all people should know that.” It was stated with a look of smug authority, as if  to disagree would have been tantamount to an admission of professional incompetence. And while […]

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  June 21, 2013

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  differing gender world view., Female perspective, feminine approach, gender in medicine, gender roles, medical opinions, patient expectations, women’s health, women’s issues, words

• Gender

  I am a prisoner of my age, a hostage to my generation; I never thought I’d say that, but I suppose none of us do… We are as contemporary as our minds and experience will allow. My own epiphany came, as I recall, when a patient engaged me in a discussion of gender. I had not […]

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  January 18, 2013

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  Gender, gender discrimination, gender in medicine, gender neutral language, gender neutrality, gender roles, Societal norms

• Choosing a doctor

  There are age-old dilemmas in choosing a doctor, aren’t there? Choices often have a way of seeming problematic, even insoluble, when considered in the abstract and all the more so when they have to be made for real. Theoretically, I suppose, they should be made after due-diligence, as the lawyers would say. One merely sets out a […]

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  September 14, 2012

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  choice, clinician vs academician, gender in medicine, male perspective, medical skill, women’s health