Thursday, August 13, 2015

"Male doctors are more likely to have legal action taken against them than female doctors"

"The relationship between male sex and poor performance in doctors remains unclear, with high profile studies showing conflicting results. Nevertheless, it is an important first step towards understanding the causes of poor performance in doctors. This article aims to establish the robustness of the association between male sex and poor performance in doctors, internationally and over time."
Overall, 32 reports examining the association between doctors’ sex and medico-legal action were included in the systematic review (n=4,054,551), of which 27 found that male doctors were more likely to have experienced medico-legal action. 19 reports were included in the meta-analysis (n=3,794,486, including 20,666 cases). Results showed male doctors had nearly two and a half times the odds of being subject to medico-legal action than female doctors. Heterogeneity was present in all meta-analyses. 
Conclusion: Male doctors are more likely to have had experienced medico-legal actions compared to female doctors. This finding is robust internationally, across outcomes of varying severity, and over time.
Reddit top voted comment...
Aren't males predominantly more likely to have legal action taken against them across all professions?

8 comments:

Methadras said...

In nearly all professions with the exception of a few, teaching being one of them, nursing being another, males make up the predominant workforce. So the odds are males are more likely to have legal action taken against them and most of the time, by other males.

bagoh20 said...

You can't go around suing women. You can't even almost kinda insult them (which often requires proper dog whistle translation) unless you want a shit storm of abuse for it.

Are you really gonna go into some patriarchy dripping court with your big feet, sex obsessed brain, and rapey body language and accuse that little girl of malpractice? What kind of animal are you?

ampersand said...

My doctor retired last year, his practice was taken over by a woman. She doesn't do icky stuff like hernia checks or prostrate probes.

bagoh20 said...

The best urologists are gay. They don't skip the icky stuff, and the icky stuff may save your life.

ampersand said...

the icky stuff may save your life

Agreed. That's why I have to find a new doctor.

KCFleming said...

Sounds like sex discrimination against men.
Clearly the Matriarchal Hegemony needs to be smashed.


Or just put under the car hood where they'll never find it.

KCFleming said...

Or under the lawn mower.

Or in my shorts.
Never to be found.
NTTAWWT.

William said...

I don't think doctors get sued for mistakes so much as for being callous in their handling of mistakes. Women may have an edge in this regard......,I have a female dentist. She replaced my old dentist who retired. They were both nice people, but I've got to say that she's far more sympathetic when I wince in pain.