Gjerberg Elisabeth
Arbeidsforskningsinstituttet, Postboks 6954 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2003 Aug 28;123(16):2300-3.
Dual-doctor marriages are increasingly frequent. The question raised here is whether being married to a fellow physician has a different impact on a doctor's career and family life than having a spouse in a different profession.
In 1996 a questionnaire was mailed to physicians who received their authorisation to practise medicine in Norway in the years 1980 through 1983 period; 1142 responded (67 %). They supplied data on their current employment status and data on employment history and marital background. Multivariate analysis was used in order to explore how the educational background of spouses affects a medical career.
Female physicians who marry a physician marry and have families at a younger age than other female physicians. Moreover, they more often enter specialties; in some specialities they also qualify earlier than those who marry non-physicians. The same did not hold for male physicians. However, male physicians in dual-doctor marriages more frequently worked part time and they far less frequently had spouses working part time than other male doctors.
The results suggest that dual-doctor couples to a higher extent share in giving care to their families, have more interests in common and are more supportive of each other's needs. Female physicians seem to benefit particularly.
双医婚姻越来越常见。这里提出的问题是，与同行医生结婚对医生的职业生涯和家庭生活的影响是否与配偶从事其他职业有所不同。
1996年，一份问卷被邮寄给在1980年至1983年期间在挪威获得行医许可的医生；1142人回复（67%）。他们提供了自己当前的就业状况数据以及就业历史和婚姻背景数据。采用多变量分析来探究配偶的教育背景如何影响医疗职业。
与医生结婚的女医生比其他女医生结婚和组建家庭的年龄更小。此外，她们更常进入专科领域；在某些专科中，她们比与非医生结婚的女医生更早取得资格。男医生的情况并非如此。然而，双医婚姻中的男医生更常从事兼职工作，而且与其他男医生相比，他们的配偶从事兼职工作的频率要低得多。
结果表明，双医夫妻在照顾家庭方面有更高程度的分担，有更多共同兴趣，并且更能相互支持对方的需求。女医生似乎尤其受益。
