PubMed · 1967 · 10 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesGender StudiesIndividual DifferencesMedical SociologyMen's HealthGender DifferencesPatient PreferencesPhysician-patient RelationshipSex DifferencesSex Differences In HealthSex RatioGender Bias In MedicineSex Differences In EpidemiologySex Differences In PrevalenceSex Differences In UtilizationSex Differentials In HealthSex SelectivitySex-related Health DisparitiesSex-specific Rate
In our urban practice, patients are able to choose freely which partner they consult, so we decided to find out whether there was a difference in the age and sex incidence of the patients seen by one of the lady partners as compared with the patients attending the two male partners. We also decided to compare the pattern of patients seen by each of the two male doctors to see whether the different ages or personalities of the two doctors attracted different types of patient. If there was close concordance between the pattern for the two male doctors then any difference observed in the lady doctor's patients would be more likely to be attributable to the sex of the doctor.