Female doctors: Bitches to bitches? (satirically ofc)

[fuc]

Every female doctor I have dealt with I either really disliked or just wasn't pleased with the way she treated me. I think this is because I'm a young looking 21 year old fellow female who is usually just trying to get a prescription. I'm very polite and mild-mannered and I still feel like Ms. Doctors treat me coldly because it's their natural instinct to judge fellow women.
The men are always nice- they make caring, concerned faces, and they never use the word "should" at me.

I'm not very feminine and I don't have sexist beliefs (other than this observation of my own experience). But I think my suspicion could be like an actual thing that is happening not only in my life but anywhere.

Is this just me being a sore bitch or am I on to something? (Obviously I'm not on to something on to something, but I would like to hear your opinions on this and any related matter)

 

[One Thousand Words]

If you are shopping for prescriptions then perhaps unlike the male doctors they simply read through your bullshit better.

I like to look them in the eye when they cup my balls and ask me to cough but have never noticed a difference between the sexes.

 

[fuc]

If you are shopping for prescriptions then perhaps unlike the male doctors they simply read through your bullshit better.

I like to look them in the eye when they cup my balls and ask me to cough but have never noticed a difference between the sexes.

meh I think the male doctors understand that I want a refill of the drug I have been taking and there`s always a chance that I have no use for it other than for fun or god forbid to sell it. But doctors can never know for sure if I will only benefit from the drug I`m requesting - only that they can make their day more difficult by refusing it, or pull the rx pad out and make my day more or less difficult depending on how much they choose to pry and judge in the process.

 

[T. Calderone]

If you are shopping for prescriptions then perhaps unlike the male doctors they simply read through your bullshit better.

My doctor knows about my previous addiction issues and is cautious prescribing me meds that have a potential for abuse. That's for my benefit and it's a good thing. I've never noticed a difference between male or female doctors and their ethics over the years. They don't want to see a person get dependent on pills, especially a young person asking for scheduled drugs.

 

[BlueIV]

I've had great doctors of both genders, but my favourites tend to be female. With the bad doctors, I find the men to be incompetent. With women, I've had weird judgmental crap to try to cover their incompetence. Ie. One got all weird on me for a BCP due to my (lack of then) sexual history. Another basically accused me of looking for pain pills and tried to blame issues on fibromyalgia which had already been ruled out by a rheumatologist. I mentioned I was concerned it was due to a serious genetic disorder that I knew I had tested positive for, but was waiting the 5 months to see the specialist to get the official dx. It was, but her response was that when you get blood tests done stuff sometimes just comes back abnormal. I had already had 2 abnormal tests, but it's rare and I think she was just totally clueless.

 

[LuGoJ]

I don't think my wife has ever had issues with female doctors but i don't think she has ever really needed to request anything other than UTI medication or antibiotics for bronchitis etc.

Now i'm interested in hearing her opinion of whether or not she ever feels like female doctors treat her differently than male doctors, i'm going to ask her when i see her.

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

This reminds me of a study I heard about that found a female white collar worker stood a greater chance of being mistreated if her boss was female than male. The discussion touched on the way lawsuits and the public demonization of sexual harrassment and sexist behavior have made a lot of male bosses of female workers wise up for the sake of their careers and companies -- an effect not felt by female bosses.

When I was in medical school, one interesting (and occasionally infuriating) thing I discovered was that if you were a female student physician, you wanted the old school hardass doctors as your teachers. A good number of them will treat female med students as patronizing yet charming gentlemen, while subjecting male medical students to this macho "take your licks" sort of hazing. I didn't see this so much with doctors who are more modern and egalitarian, who never trained at a place that was a sausage fest. I've said this to female colleagues, and been told the opposite is sometimes true also -- female doctors who will dominate female medical students in some subtle women's-world ways that males are spared, and are usually oblivious to.

Since you're painting with an awfully broad brush, OP, I'm going to take the liberty of doing the same: Generally speaking, women's minds are wired primarily for effective and accurate communication with other people, while men's minds are wired primarily for analyzing and understanding complex systems. Primary care medicine is fast becoming a female-dominated profession. Most industry watchers say that's a good thing, since the evidence we have so far seems to suggest reading the patients well and practicing clear and quality communication with them tends to keep people healthier in the long run better than having an encyclopedic knowledge of diagnostic and treatment algorithms and pathophysiology. Not that a doctor doesn't need both, but those naturally stronger on the former tend to keep their patients healthier.

The reason I bring this up is, if the female doctors you've tried have typically-wired female brains, they may be picking up on some subtle nuance to the way you're presenting yourself and your problem to them that you're not even aware you're showing, and might be sending them a message you don't mean to, that flies under many male doctors' radar. To say more, I'd have to know exactly what script(s) you're asking for, to treat what condition, and how you're broaching the subject with them.

 

[fuc]

so im givin off a scent

 

[OpSessed]

I have been prescribed either oxycodone or hydrocodone during 4 of my 5 pregnancies from about 4 months on to delivery at 9 months. It seemed to me the male doctors were far more generous than the female doctors. I raised such a stink with the one young female doctor I had she called the head-on/gyn of the practice. An older male. She admitted to me he told her "Oh for crying out loud, if they're in pain give them percoset!"

Another time I went to the ER for severe back pain and spasms, ok maybe a little WD symptoms as well.... I had my "fell down" story ready to spout. The gentleman doctor came in and introduced himself and before I could take a breath and give my speech he says, "Your back hurts? How about we give you some hydrocodone and get ya out of here?"
Well....hell yeah!....I sighed, looked down and said "Okaaayyy."
As he left the room I had to bite my tongue to NOT call him back and give him my well-rehearsed story.
Anyway, I've never had such luck with females.