Abigail Zuger wrote a piece called "Defining a Doctor" in which she focuses on two young doctors and their ways of working in the field. There is a man who never works a minute later than his hours declare, only performs his specified duties, and has no emotional attachments to any patients. The woman often works overtime to complete a job or fufil a patient's needs, uses her free time at home to check up on patients, and usually does work outside of what is asked of her.
The question here is does the medical field need more of the "male doctor" type or the "woman doctor". Although there may be no difference in the chances of the different patients getting well, what doctor would one reccommend if he or she was becoming ill? The man completes his job to an end and is well rested while the woman finds no ends in her responsibilities and is constantly sleep deprived.
In my opinion, the medical field is seeing a large decrease in the type of the woman doctor. Many people focus so much on their text books and studies, that there is no time for external work these days. Not only does the woman clearly work harder than the man, but she has an emotional attachment to her job as well. As much as I think that the woman would make a better doctor, I think this world can only accept the man. He still knows what he is doing and has a healthier mental mind than the woman.
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I'm surprised that you reached the conclusion that you did given that the physician who wrote the article clearly did not reach this conclusion. Why do you disagree with her conclusion that neither is the appropriate model for a physician and that their ought to be more balance but, as I interpreted it, that care should never be eliminated from the physician's job.
Why do you disagree that the male doctor will be accepted (particularly given that this model is a fairly new one). Do you think that he would be promoted? Well-known and liked by his colleagues and the staff? This isn't to say that the other intern wasn't also excessive in the other direction.
I'm just curious to read more about your reasoning.
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