Patient perceptions of emergency physicians: The gender gap still exists

Prince, Louise A.; Pipas, Lauren; Brown, Lawrence H.

doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2006.04.011

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Some of this work highlights the role of physician gender in making inferences about ability or quality. In a telling study, Prince, Pipas, and Brown (2006) surveyed patients in a hospital emergency department (ED) to ask whether they had been visited by a physician, when all patients had received a consultation. In 93.3 percent of consultations with male doctors, patients recognized the interaction as a physician visit, compared to just 78.5 percent of consultations if the physician was female.…”

Section: Empirical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender in the Markets for Expertise

Vaan

Stuart

2022

Am Sociol Rev

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Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in client-expert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences in clients’ trust in expert advice. To explore these issues, we investigate the incidence of patient-initiated second opinions (SOs) in medicine. In an examination of millions of medical claims in Massachusetts, we find that male patients are much more likely than female patients to obtain an SO if the first specialist they consult is female. Moreover, when the first specialist a patient consults is gender non-concordant and the patient seeks an SO, male patients are substantially more likely to switch to a same-gender specialist in the SO visit. Because patients who lack confidence in the advice of the first-seen specialist infrequently return to this specialist for medical services, female specialists generate lower billings. Analyses of medical spending in follow-up visits suggest that gendered patterns in questioning the advice of medical experts have the potential to contribute substantially to the gender pay gap in medicine.

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Section: Empirical Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender in the Markets for Expertise

Vaan

Stuart

2022

Am Sociol Rev

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“…However, they are sometimes perceived differently. For example, in a study of patient perceptions of emergency physicians from the US, women were significantly less likely than males to be recognised as physicians by the patients (Prince et al 2006).…”

Section: The Situation In the Westmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women in Medicine

Sood

Chadda

2010

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

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“…Women in academic EM are paid significantly less, but work more clinical hours than their male colleagues 9,10 and are more prone to gender discrimination 11 12–15 faculty and nursing evaluation of performance, 16–18 patient perception, 19 and attrition 20 …”

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confidence: 99%