howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins
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Traditionally women went into nursing and the men became doctors.
So long as they are good at the job and speak good English, so I can understand them, I do not mind if my quack is male or female.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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I am always a little shocked to realise that it is a man who is head of the RCN (I think it is, it might be the NMC - both, in my view, past their sell by), and he is a doctor.............whatever he is a doctor in, even if it isn't medicine, it sends a message..........
Guest 717- Registered: 16 Jun 2011
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I am 'assigned' (due to my residential location) to St.james's surgery. There are NO female doctors there. I am thinking of changing because of this reason. I know a doctor is a doctor and I understand what you mean Jan but sometimes I just want to be seen by a female. It would be a shame if this became common in most practices.
Keeps politics to myself
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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my surgery is staffed by different sex doctors(changing all the time) and lady receptionists and nurses.
all do a high quality job and i have no problem with who sees me.
going off at a tangent i had a personal problem in the nether regions about 20 years ago which was eventually solved by my doctor in his surgery.
normally i would have been pleased with the problem(how can i put this) a rather large swelling, unfortunately it was rather painful.
after a number of tests it was put down to an allergy to a washing powder, conditioner or something like that.
i was given antibiotics and about a week later it was cleared up.
about 2 years later it came back so off i went down to the surgery, it then transpires that my doctor had taken his first holiday in over 10 years and there was a locum.
not a problem i thought, a look at my records would explain things.
in i went and there was this lady in a sari, red spot on the forehead sitting there, i explained the problem and she shuddered and said my doctor would be back next week.
i said that i needed antibiotics now and said i would show her the problem, before i had got my trousers halfway down she had gone into what seemed a panic attack.
i thought i was the one supposed to be embarrassed?
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Howard are you sure you had gone into the surgery and not the lady patients' waiting room?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
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Interesting piece there Howard. especially reading that Professor Jane Dacre who is the Medical School Director of UCL (where daughter Briony is studying), saying that women are under represented at the top of the profession as they are not investing the time and effort it takes to get the top jobs. I guess it goes with the territory, as most women want to get married and eventually have children thus working less hours than their male counterparts.
I had to laugh reading your humourous story, no fear of daughter Briony going into panic mode as she is already covering that type of situation in clinics.
Like Helen T, I attend St James's Surgery and there are times that I would prefer to see a female doctor.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that was made clear in the article colette, gender equality campaigners keep talking about the "glass ceiling" but in all truth most women see themelves as mothers too. let's face it if one parent is more important to a young child it has to be the mother 99 times out of a hundred.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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One has to have admiration Howard for one who wishes to become a doctor, the long years of study it takes to finally get there has to be dedication and determination, to make it in a male dominated profession my doctor happens to be only one of to two female doctors in my GP surgery.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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of course jan, i am just surprised it is still male dominated.
when i attend hospital as a patient or with someone else that is it seems that lady doctors are in the majority, good thing as far as i am concerned.
when i was in the k & c emergeny care section a young lady doctor came in and asked whether i minded her feeling about me a bit.
i thought you had to go private for that, rest assured i recovered very quickly.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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I think Howard there are more and more lady doctors coming up, there was a very good interview on the radio today on the very subject, lol!!! i'm sure your blushes were spared by the young doctor.
