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So if the gender of physicians should be irrelevant to young men, do you also chastise young women that only want female GYN's, female dermatologists, female urologists, and female primary care physicians?
No one is chastising. I'm just pointing out that this is becoming a non-issue.
No one is chastising. I'm just pointing out that this is becoming a non-issue.
Sorry if I took your comment the wrong way, but if it is becoming a non-issue for young men as you say, why are young women going in the opposite direction in seeking only female caregivers?
Sorry if I took your comment the wrong way, but if it is becoming a non-issue for young men as you say, why are young women going in the opposite direction in seeking only female caregivers?
My 2 daughters are not nor my sons ages 25-35 . They don't care like in my post earlier The ladies all have all male dr's at the moment one ( 16.75 yrs) is in the hospital now and has been for over a week and i am here with her . One is her surgeon . She loves Dr A. and Dr J and has for years and has both male and female nurses she always likes all of them .
My husband, bikerman, who has been a color wearing "81" for over 35 years back home in Holland
( someone here thought he was native American but he is Dutch ) has a female urologist here in Seattle, who at my bringing him in saved his life last year . I am SO grateful to her . Because it is very touchy he really only trusts her . She was able to figure out the problem quickly before it killed him and in the process she had to train him to cath himself - he does what she says . He has wanted to be a nurse forever though .
I am really worried someone here is sick and won't go if they cannot see whichever gender Dr.
This is what most men have told me. They prefer women doctors because they spend more time with a patient, are more thorough, explain more. It's been proven by studies.
Despite my learned wariness of female non-physician staff, I am a bit intrigued by anecdotes saying what you say here. My experience with female providers is limited (2 physicians and 2 NP's) and they weren't any better or worse than male providers I've had.
The best provider I have ever had is my current PCP, a young male PA. I only grudgingly went to him because I wanted a doctor, not a PA, but there were not any internists within 2 hours of where I live taking new patients. All I found was him, one other PA, and a couple NP's. I figured go with him and if something serious comes along I'll get bumped up to the MD's in the practice. However, that first visit was a wow experience. He took his time, listened, was very thorough, figured out the cause of a problem I had had for 13 months that nobody else figured out, and he explained a couple important things about prior health matters of mine that no doctor ever explained to me. I will go as far as saying this PA is the only wow experience I have ever had with a provider. I do see the irony in my initially only grudgingly going to him, and as such will try to keep my mind open to female physicians that might be his equivalent in the wow category.
I am really worried someone here is sick and won't go if they cannot see whichever gender Dr.
There are lots of people like that. I personally encourage people when and where I can to set aside their modesty or other concerns and do what needs to be done. With friends and acquaintances I have used my personal examples of cancer being caught early only because I went for my annual physical and of a precancerous situation being found only because I went for my colonoscopy.
As I have said several times, it is not so much the doctor as the staff. There are men who do not go to even a male urologist because it is a rarity that a urologist ever has any male staff doing the intimate prep and procedures. These men who won't go are avoiding the staff, not the doctor. I try telling them that in all likelihood the staff will be very professional, but if they're not that they can speak up and the issue will be addressed, that fear of what might be is not a reason to forgo healthcare.
Just for fun...my situation is an interesting anecdote.
My primary care physician is a female Texan and university professor. So I put up with whoever she decides to send in first and who she brings in with her. I am mature and to a pretty good degree free of false modesty...look this is how they get at 80. My doctor however has one vastly important quality. She knows my medical history and can and has recited it at 3AM. And she answers the phone then. The only thing I fear is she too ages. Will she hang in there until I have no further need?
My urologist is also female. She is down to earth and occasionally breaks male chops but I really cannot see why I care who looks down my various portals. She is good at it so I will stay with her.
Sorry if I took your comment the wrong way, but if it is becoming a non-issue for young men as you say, why are young women going in the opposite direction in seeking only female caregivers?
Why do you think they are?
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