UK: Medical Chiefs Worried There Are Too Many Female Doctors

I'm told by a doctor friend of mine that the problem isn't just the numbers - it's where they choose to work. Most female doctors want to be GPs (General Practitioners or family doctors), rather than hospital consultants. There could therefore be particular shortages in particular areas.

But, hey, as long as women are happy, who cares about patient care?

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The women doctors must be kept happy - the male patients can go to hell.

I love how the solution is always to give women more sh*t. Example: "Well, you see, if women could just work 10 hour weeks while being paid for 40 they could continue to practice medicine and take care of their children. Naturally, all males will be expected to take a 20% pay cut and enter into indentured servant contracts with women with small children. It's what's "best".

"But the stark fact is that Leigh, and the burgeoning numbers of women doctors like her, cannot be treated like substitute men."

Translation: We cannot insist they work 100-hr weeks, at least for the first 5 years of their post-intern lives, like we can men. We actually have to let them leave at 5:00 (or sooner) and pay them the same. Week-ends? Only every other. Or maybe, risk getting sued.

So, let them go. But keep the men in the hospitals under the "traditional schedules", but when promotion time comes around, don't count the relative lack of time spent in the wards against the female doctors or else you'll have a whopping lawsuit on your hands.

Empowerment at the expense of the rest of society. You go, girls.

But yet, there is a bigger problem here and that cannot be overlooked: In the US and the UK, our respective professional organizations that have legal control over the field of medicine decide how many seats are available in medical schools. They keep the seats rather low for a variety of reasons. Here in the US, the net result is that it takes incredibly high grades (often, straight As, or nearly) from very good undergrad programs in bio, chem, etc. plus very good scores (top 5% in most cases) in the pre-admission tests (in the US, it's the MCATs) plus a very solid pre-admission resume to get even one or two offers to an accredited medical school. We could have a lot more MDs and similar practitioners (eg: PAs and NPs) but we keep the number of seats low and the admission standards very high not just for MDs but also for the PAs and NPs.

Well I understand the concern for public health and safety but even with such "high standards", there are an unacceptably large number of medical mistakes and malpractice cases yearly in both countries, largely because our MDs, et al., are often dog-tired due to their ball-busting schedules. The schedules are as packed as they are because, you guessed it, there are too few practitioners.

95% of medical work is protocol-based and very routine. There is no reason in the vast majority of cases why someone needs to be a certifiable genius to be an MD, PA, or NP. But yet, that is how the AMA/BMA behaves. And until the medical authorities in the US, UK, and other places get it through their heads that our societies NEED more healthcare practitioners at all levels, and FAST, the lawsuits over malpractice and medical mistakes that dog them will only get worse and worse, and the demand for their services only greater and greater as our populations age.

The matter is that women use medical help more than men and therefore suffer more from stupid and incompetent female doctors.

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