I am female.
Female T. Male pdoc. I like it like this - bit I might also like it if it were different.
Well, actually, I might not. Males in general tend to be more straightforward than females, also less likely to lose themselves in empathy. (Empathy is fine, but empathy ONLY isn't) Also, in my experience with doctors, males tend to be useless, harsh, or a combination. Females.. assume, don't take you seriously, have that empathy I talked about (wanting to talk a lot about what they assume you are going through because of your sore toe. You know, the sore toe doesn't make me sad or anything, and I only think about it when I walk. If I were dying I might want to talk about what I am going through. Or if the sore toe is actually making me sad. Even then, esp in that last case, I would talk about that with my T, not you. Because, you know, being sad or frustrated because of a sore toe isn't really something that I feel an orthopaedic surgeon can help me with.). Also, I have been abused (medically tortured) by/on orders of a female doctor. That doesn't mean I trust them less than male doctors, just that dislike or annoyance rises quickly to fear and distrust in my mind.
Also because males tend to be more 'what you see is what you get' and 'if I don't believe you I'll tell you so', I am more likely to trust what they DO show.
So male pdoc, probably. And I like having a female thrown in somewhere - both for the 'balance' and also because if I have issues with my family (usually mother) her 'I think all mothers do a little of that occasionally. I do. Usually when x is happening and I'm feeling y because of z.'
It is not because I want to work on a relationship with her to heal from what happened with my mother (I never really get that type of therapy either - pay someone who is bound by privacy laws to use therapeutic techniques on you one hour a week is supposed to help you trust women outside of therapy rooms, privacy laws, and therapeutic techniques?), just that she can now occasionally offer the mother's perspective.
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