Male doctors disappearing from gynecology in Finland
Male doctors disappearing from gynecology in Finland
Article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20117783
TLDR: far fewer men are becoming gynaecologists because female patients often refuse to be examined by male students, meaning they would be ill-prepared compared to their female peers after graduation. The article frames it as discrimination and unfair, but I think it's great news.
Quote:"Before the turn of the millennium, there probably were doctors who felt entitled to speak somewhat condescendingly or bluntly about women. Nowadays, we place a great deal of emphasis on how we engage with patients," Polo said.
Quote:"Before the turn of the millennium, there probably were doctors who felt entitled to speak somewhat condescendingly or bluntly about women. Nowadays, we place a great deal of emphasis on how we engage with patients," Polo said.
(Yesterday, 2:30 PM)Magpie Article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20117783
TLDR: far fewer men are becoming gynaecologists because female patients often refuse to be examined by male students, meaning they would be ill-prepared compared to their female peers after graduation. The article frames it as discrimination and unfair, but I think it's great news.
(Yesterday, 2:30 PM)Magpie Article: https://yle.fi/a/74-20117783
TLDR: far fewer men are becoming gynaecologists because female patients often refuse to be examined by male students, meaning they would be ill-prepared compared to their female peers after graduation. The article frames it as discrimination and unfair, but I think it's great news.
Yeah, I think this is great news. As if men can't pick any other doctor specialty, no, they have to pick the one that involves women's genitals. How tragic that women aren't interested in their services...
I think that male gynecologists were merely tolerated when women were prevented from being doctors themselves. Now that women have been catching up in opportunities, it makes sense that the people who have vaginas are the people who can, and are preferred to, specialize in health for vaginas.
It's also great news because it means women are more comfortable voicing their preference for a female doctor, and are apparently actually having their requests be respected enough to make changes in medical specialist enrollments.