Does it make a difference? A study present at the ACC Meetings suggest so:
Female physicians are better than men in treating fellow women with high-blood pressure and cholesterol, and they also are better at helping men control cholesterol, the Swedish study found . . .. . . One reason for the better cholesterol-control may be that the women doctors studied were more likely to prescribe lipid-lowering statins.
As for other explanatory factors for the results, Gunilla hypothesized that, “it could be communication,” notably, potentially better people skills of women doctors.
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Let’s try a study where there could be some M/F differences, like treating erectile dysfunction.
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop:
Study shows female physicians make less than their male couterparts.
If a female physician makes less than a male it is simply because they don’t work as much, don’t see as many patients, or are inferior businessman (woman).
Medicare and other insurers pay the same for a given procedure or E/M code whether you are male, female, hermaphrodite, black, white, or purple.
The pay scale should equalize as more women go into medicine. Medical school admissions are now 50/50 male/female. When we have more women in positions of medical leadership, we will also improve our chances of fair treatment. The “old boys network” is starting to crumble, and it also takes with it the paternalism that patients dislike so much.
Cripes. It didn’t take long for the crusaders to take the bait , did it?
“old boys network” “paternalism”
let’s throw in “sexism” “glass ceiling” “discrimination” “chauvinism” Christ, you could turn it into a drinkgin game. A shot of tequila everytime one of the buzzwords are used in an internet flamethrowing contest.
How utterly predictable. And pathetic.
Odd that one poster used her name, and another chose to remain anonymous. Whether “anonymous” can see it or not, it’s out there. The fact that Medicare/Medicaid pays same amount based on procedures has nothing to do with it. If a female MD is in a group with male MD’s, I wonder if they’re all getting the same salary- despite the same payment from the insurer or the individual.
I doubt it in many cases.
i tink its dem purdy eyes u got mam.
“If a female MD is in a group with male MD’s, I wonder if they’re all getting the same salary- despite the same payment from the insurer or the individual.
I doubt it in many cases.”
I doubt the men are getting the same pay as each other either, especially since “pay” in groups is tied to equity practice interest. The sex of the doctor has nothing to do with it. But go ahead, don’t let me sway you from your preconceptions.
What the other poster has said is true. Any disparity between men and women in physician’s pay has more to do with differences in hours worked, numbers of patients seen and whether the doctors in question have ownership rights. Part-timers, regardless of sex typically do not.
I’m a pretty old female and it has not been my experience that women doctors are better communicators than men doctors. I’ve had mostly very good doctors, male and female, and (so very briefly) a very few, male and female doctors who I didn’t like at all.
I worked in a multispecialty group with one partner in my department–a female. I am male. She stuck to her schedule and never deviated. I stayed late and worked through lunch to see her urgents. Come to find out, she was getting ten thousand a year more than I was because admin thought it would be good to have a female. My production was 15% higher.
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