Comments on: Female vs male physicians

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:34:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:01:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:11:00 +0000

"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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:59:00 +0000

i tink its dem purdy eyes u got mam.

By: pdx rn

pdx rn — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:27:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:16:00 +0000

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.

By: Val Jones, MD

Val Jones, MD — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:10:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:00:00 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:39:00 +0000

I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop:

Study shows female physicians make less than their male couterparts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:41:00 +0000

Let’s try a study where there could be some M/F differences, like treating erectile dysfunction.