The professional attitudes and clinical practices of men and women generalists.
Data from a 1983-84 Quebec generalists' survey were used to compare the professional attitudes and clinical practices of women physicians with those of their male colleagues. The survey was conducted on a random sample of 736 Quebec generalists and achieved a 83.7% response rate. Analyses were performed separately for fee-for-service physicians and for salaried physicians working in local community health centers (CLSCS). Results showed more gender differences among fee-for-service physicians than among salaried physicians. Women in private practice were more likely than their male colleagues to value the multidisciplinary, social, and humanistic aspects of patient care. For their part, women salaried physicians reported being significantly more involved in the social and preventive dimensions of health care than their male colleagues. Important attitudinal differences were observed between fee-for-service and salaried generalists, regardless of gender. This study suggests that neither the medical training nor the organizational constraints of the work setting succeed in levelling off all gender differences. The findings also suggest that women physicians can help promote aspects of health care to which much importance has been attributed in recent years.
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