Personally, I have a male doctor and I feel happier with that arrangement. I am old fashioned.
When I was a medical student the class was majority female by a significant amount.
I found by experience female GPs have tended to be more emphatehtic in comparison to male drsâŚ
Really? My GP practically had tears in his eyes when discussing my mental health with me.
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My experiences are not emotional experiences usually⌠I just seemed very shaky and very on edge i rarely get depressed and if i do it lifts very quicklyâŚ
I donât think you can make generalizations like that. A lot would depend on what field of medicine youâre talking about, and I still think youâre overgeneralizing when you make statements like that. Iâve come across female pdocâs who didnât do that much for me. I have come across male pdocâs who have also let me down, but I have come across male pdocâs who I have liked and respected. Iâm always skeptical when someone begins a sentence with the words - âStudies have shownâ. A lot of those studies can be very artificial and donât mean much.
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I am going by experience⌠so it is a generalisation⌠but its my experience and I acknowledge others may feel differentlyâŚ
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Their conclusions may very well be true. But before we fire every male doctor and kick all men out of medical school, one important finding from this study must be addressed: Female doctors saw on average 37 percent fewer patients than male doctors (131.9 vs. 180.6). This is not a fluke, as this data corresponds with other studies showing that female physicians work fewer hours than male physicians. For example, a 2000 study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine found that 22 percent of women worked part-time, versus 9 percent for men. More recent data supports the veracity of these findings. According to Medscapeâs 2016 compensation survey, only 26 percent of female physicians report spending more than forty hours a week with patients, compared to 40 percent of male doctors.
Both common sense and a wealth of data about the impact of work hours on performance suggest that physicians working fewer hours, and seeing fewer patients, will provide better care for their patients. I strongly suspect that if they were to re-analyze their data for number of patients seen, their reported difference between male and female doctors would vanish. Instead, they would likely see a proportional improvement with patient outcomes as number of patients seen (and hours worked) decreased for both sexes. Even if my hunch is incorrect, this is an essential variable that needs to be analyzed before drawing any conclusions from the data.
However, this notion was not obvious to the authors of this study, who made no effort to control for number of patients seen or hours worked. They also failed to discuss what, if any, effect they think number of patients seen might have had on physician performance. I am not sure why they chose to ignore such a vital piece of data in their conclusions. Perhaps they knew that, given the dire shortage of physicians, suggesting that doctors work fewer hours would be pointless. My more cynical side wonders if they knew that claiming, âWomen are better than menâ would get more headlines than âDoctors need more time off.â
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Iâve had both male and female psychiatrists.
I prefer female doctors because usually they are more empathetic and compassionate.
I emphasize the word usually.
I have had both and male, female does not matter, there are good and bad for both sexes
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Only in the last 75 years or so in the western world has there been female doctors. Before then, all doctors were male. Iâm old fashioned as well⌠I would rather see a male doctor and a female nurse.
I think female doctors have more compassion or empathy.
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Why are people interested in/financing these useless studies?
They obviously have an agendaâŚ
I am new fashioned, I like to see women who do well.
If anyone is going to poke my butt I would rather it be a girl.