Dickinson G E, Tournier R E
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of Charleston, South Carolina.
J Am Med Womens Assoc (1972). 1993 Jan-Feb;48(1):19-22.
The authors were interested in whether or not there were sex differences in the way physicians respond to the needs of dying patients and their families at the time they graduate from medical school versus ten years later. A 71% return rate was received from a questionnaire mailed in 1976 to 1,540 graduates of five selected medical schools; the return rate for the follow-up study in 1986 was 58%. Ten percent of the respondents were female. The 1976 findings provided some evidence to support the argument that there are differences between male and female physicians' attitudes toward dying patients soon after graduation. The 1986 data, gathered after a decade of practicing medicine, showed even more striking differences. Perhaps "feminine characteristics" lend themselves to better communication with dying patients and their families than "masculine traits" do.
作者们感兴趣的是，医学院毕业时与毕业十年后，医生在回应濒死患者及其家属需求的方式上是否存在性别差异。1976年，向五所选定医学院的1540名毕业生邮寄了调查问卷，回收率为71%；1986年随访研究的回收率为58%。10%的受访者为女性。1976年的研究结果提供了一些证据，支持了这样的观点，即毕业后不久，男女医生对濒死患者的态度存在差异。1986年的数据是在行医十年后收集的，显示出更为显著的差异。也许“女性特质”比“男性特质”更有助于与濒死患者及其家属进行更好的沟通。
