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From: holt@parsec.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: the vision of women.only - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 22:58:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 22 22:58:58 1984
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parsec!holt    Feb 22 13:07:00 1984


	"having had physicians of both genders, dentist, and opthamologists of
	both genders as well I am 100% convinced that women make the best
	health care practitioners..being techinically talented and sensitive
	to the entire individual, women physicians are not the mechanics that
	male doctors tend to be."

    This is a very sexist statement.  

    It seems to me that the over compensation which doctors of one sex 
exhibit, when treating members of the opposite sex, is the real issue here.
Society would view it as a very serious situation if a doctor was accused 
of being overly familiar with a patient of the opposite sex.  Thus, many 
doctors, both men and women, when dealing with patients of the opposite sex, 
tend to over-emphasize the distance between themselves and the patient.  This
avoids any inference of "sexual" motivations, but, unhappily, is most often
viewed by the patient as "apathy" on the part of the physician.  It is a fine
line to be tread, and most doctors take the "safe" route.

				Dave Holt
				Convex Computer Corp.
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