Originally Posted by PPHawk
Not all women are willing to have male doctors. I think, at least in some cases, it's male vs female, not nurse vs doctor. On the other hand, I don't know what age group you work with, but we still have some people out there who see the doctor as the Male Authority Figure, a kindly father type. I know lots of male nurses who are called doctor until they straighten out the patient, who then can't understand why they'd be a nurse instead of a doctor.
Personally, I like working with male nurses. Never met one I didn't like.
But that's my point. Not all women want male doctors and that's fine.
It makes sense to me if a female patient is uneasy with males period for her own reasons.
But to be perfectly ok with a male examining you or seeing you exposed as long as he is a doctor but not ok if it's a male nurse is the double standard I'm talking about.
If you don't want men taking care of you, fine.
But don't make exceptions for physicians because you are lulled under the false impression that just because they have more education, autonomy, authority, etc. that they somehow are above seeing female patients as sexual objects and/or being inappropriate.
And as far as people seeing them as father figures goes, well that just makes the whole thing even more absurd, bizarre, and twisted.
They are no more or less men than a male nurse is.
Over the years, I've heard plenty of MD's make inappropriate comments about female patients and colleagues alike.
Male MD's are not immune to this. They are still men with the same hormones and sexuality as a male nurse.
Professionalism is an individual thing, not a gender thing.
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