Gender Differences In Medical Research

In reading these chapters I understand that the differences and similarities between male physicians and women physicians have many different viewpoints from both sides. The male and female medical practices both have different viewpoints on working with patients and also different communication strategies they use that may not work affectively with some patients. In reading this essay I found that studies show that men are not sensitive to women and miss guide their treatment while diagnosing their illness or problem. In the female practice of medicine I studied that patients tend to be missing the “Authoritve” figure when a female physician is diagnosing their problem or issue. In medicine I understood after reading this essay that females …show more content…
In reading getting to know about the male practice and the male physicians the essay provided detail about studies showing how male’s sensitivity wasn’t good in dealing with women. An example was provided in the essay about a woman having heart problems and the male physician thought to treat it with an anxiety attack. Men also exhibited sexist attitudes and behaviors toward women patients and health workers. This can come from the male dominance in the medical field and having them think that they are superior to women in the medical field. Situations like these are reasons why people think the male dominance is very misleading because sometimes they can be wrong about the problem or issue. The differences in the medical field about women and men are very high when it comes to dealing with patients. In reading about a women’s take on a patient relationship the studies found that women were more concerned and attentive to patient’s comments and medical problems in the past. These issues can be related back to women physicians might know the struggle in took for them to get a position in there career where they take the time to actually make a relationship with the patient. In …show more content…
In reading the essay I found that the doctor and nurses play a game, which is called the “doctor-nurse” game. This game is for the nurses and doctors to look like they are getting along, but really the nurse is just trying to make his or her own decision for the patient. The nurses now days recommend to the doctor of what the patient needs before the doctor even looks at the patient. This game works in both favors for doctors and nurses because the doctor has a great assistant that is working very hard at her position and the nurse looks like a genius to the doctor an this helps both of them out. Nurses understand how important they are in today’s society so more males are joining he occupation today. In the gender role of a male nurse other male doctors accepted their opinion more then they did female nurses. An example in the essay showed how the gender male nurse role is played out between the doctor-nurse relationship which was, a male nurse was thanked my a physician for pointing out his mistake; however the same physician called a women nurse a derogatory name for point out the same mistake. This example shows me that male nurses are more respected and have more dominance over the female nurses when it comes to opinions and recommendations in the medical field. In understanding the relationships between the two occupations nurse just want