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Women Physicians in Byzantium

World Journal of Surgery, 2016
AbstractWomen were allowed to practice the medical profession during the Byzantine Empire. The presence of female physicians was not an innovation of the Byzantine era but actually originated from ancient Greece and Rome. The studies and the training of women doctors were apparently equivalent to those of their male colleagues.
Ioannis D, Gkegkes   +3 more
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Women physicians in Quebec

Social Science & Medicine, 1997
This article presents the results of a qualitative study on women physicians in Quebec which aimed to go beyond a mere statistical description of the tendencies observed in their practices. It proposes an interpretation of their discourses on their practice and its context bringing to light the interdependence of individual strategies and structural ...
M, De Koninck   +2 more
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Women Physicians and Addiction

Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2007
Nine hundred and sixty-nine impaired physicians (125 women and 844 men) enrolled in one of four state physician health programs were evaluated with comprehensive psychosocial, psychiatric and substance abuse/dependence profiles. When compared to male impaired physicians at time of entry to physician health programs, the 125 female impaired physicians ...
Martha J, Wunsch   +4 more
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Suicide among physicians: Major risk for women physicians

Psychiatry Research, 2022
The risk of suicide is related to professional activity. Preliminary data suggest that being in the medical profession increases the risk of suicide in women. The objective of this nationwide study is to compare the death rate of physicians due to suicide with that of the general population and to assess the differences based on gender.All physicians ...
M. Irigoyen-Otiñano   +9 more
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Underemployment of Women Physicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1969
Excerpt Underemployment of women physicians, despite the serious imbalance between the supply and demand for medical skills, has been documented in several recent studies (1-7).
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The evolution of women as physicians and surgeons

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2001
Women have played an active role as physicians and surgeons from earliest history. In the United States, medical education for women began in 1847 and flourished as medical schools proliferated to meet the growing population demand. The Flexner Report in 1910 resulted in about half the medical schools in the U.S.
G N, Burrow, N L, Burgess
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Physician Interaction With Battered Women: The Women's Perspective

Archives of Family Medicine, 1998
Programs that train health professionals to identify and treat battered women have not previously incorporated systematically obtained advice from battered women to guide physician behavior.To survey battered women to (1) rate the desirability of specific physician behaviors, (2) describe their actual experiences with physicians while seeking abuse ...
L K, Hamberger   +3 more
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The Professional Identities of Women Physicians

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1981
THE ADMISSION gates are ajar for women now applying to medical school. In 1979-1980, 28% of all first-year medical students were women, a record-breaking number. To the undiscerning eye it may seem that the major obstacles to women entering the medical profession are vanishing.
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Suicide Among Women Physicians

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977
To the Editor.— The authors of "Preventing Physician Suicide" (237:143-145) address a very real problem for the medical community. They allude only in passing, however, to the sex of the physician as a possible influence on likelihood of suicide and on presentation of barriers to suicide prevention. It is fruitful to consider men and women physicians
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Productivity of Women Physicians

1985
It is widely recognized that woman physicians work fewer hours than their male colleagues. Less clear, however, is the nature of the productivity differences between men and women, and how that difference is changing over time. Certainly, the fact that women physicians work less and see fewer patients is a source of consternation, and has led some men ...
Marjorie A. Bowman, Deborah I. Allen
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