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To: donna
I'm a little bemused. What in this article supports the view that women doctors are "the problem" when it comes to infant mortality?

It makes the point that female MD's are more likely to work part-time, and even at full-time they se less patients because they spend more time talking with and counseling each one. They also concentrate in areas like OB/GYN and pediatrics rather than cardiology, orthopedic surgery, etc.

But one would think that that would be highly compatible with helping young mothers cope with the challenge of nurturing at-risk babies and young children. The mothers feel free to talk about their problems or their babies' problems in detail, they feel trhe woman doctors are less brusque and rushed, more empathetic --- and that's all to the good.

Blame males, if you want to, for not entering the medical fields where they're needed, and for being so overextended, tired, and time-driven that they can't relate to their patients.

(I don't blame doctors of either sex. I think we need more of all of them.)

39 posted on 11/11/2007 5:08:45 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? -- Helen Keller)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Your point of view is as much speculation as mine.

Perhaps these “empowered” female doctors feel they have a right to decide which babies live and which babies die.

Or, maybe these female doctors are providing a lower standard of care because they have to pick up their own kids from daycare and just can’t do it all.

We need a study of the infant mortality rate that compares female to male doctors to be sure.


55 posted on 11/11/2007 9:27:10 AM PST by donna (We live in this fog of political correctness, where everything is perpetual deception.-John Hagee)
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