
SMNTY Classics: Do doctors listen to women?
Stuff Mom Never Told You
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Male Doctors Talk Like Robots
Female patients are happiest with female doctors when they express great concern, sympathy and reassurance. Men tend to be satisfied regardless of the doctors gender in communication style. But if those doctors were male, female patients were dissatisfied with overt displays of caring. It makes sense so that women be more particular about the kind of health care they are receiving.
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