Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!holt From: holt@parsec.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: the vision of women.only - (nf) Message-ID: <5821@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 22:58:58 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5821 Posted: Wed Feb 22 22:58:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:32:25 EST Lines: 25 #R:uicsl:16400039:parsec:45000005:000:1104 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. {allegra,ihnp4,uiucdcs,ctvax}!parsec!holt