Wednesday,
September 26
Too Many Italian Women Doctors?
The
ANNOTICO Report
By 2017,in one decade, only two doctors in ten
will be male, according to FNOMCEO, the federation of Italian
medical associations !!!!!
Today's
article in Corriere Della Sera reflects an opinion
previously expressed 3 YEARS ago in
Incidentally, I disagree with this Italian Doctor TOTALLY. If
someone is going to be fondling my Genitals OR sticking their finger up my
backside to massage my Prostate,, I would prefer it to
be a young lovely FEMALE, than my crotchety old Male doctor!!!!!!
:) :)
Thanks
to Pat Gabriel
Too
Many Women Doctors
Corriere Della Sera
26 settembre 2007
In
2017, only two doctors in ten will be male. Surgeons and
urologists dwindling. Federation of medical associations warns that
countermeasures must be taken
Already,
some 60% of the students at faculties of medicine and surgery are female and
forecasts predict that in the next ten years, as many as eight white coats in
ten will be worn by women. The topic will be on Friday’s agenda at a major conference organised
at
Dr
Bianco’s warning is based on figures collated by his deputy,
Maurizio Bennato: “We have to address the future
differently, otherwise some specialisations,
especially the
ones that today are single sex, will be facing a crisis. I am very much in favour of women doctors but I do admit to a certain
concern. We have to design a system that will ensure quality and potential
without reducing supply”.
Hospital
roles will be turned on their heads with beskirted
doctors and nurses in trousers. For there is also a new trend
in nursing. Once, nurses were female but nowadays the profession offers
more promising prospects for men. Nursing is no longer just about care and has
acquired a managerial, coordination-oriented focus. In other words, old-style
ward sisters are on the way out.
In
the world of medicine, the fields traditionally denied to women are now more
open. These include prestigious surgery specialisations
like neurosurgery and cardiosurgery, not to mention
those that deal with diseases of the intimate regions. Vincenzo
Mirone, president of the Italian society of urology,
reflects on the figures. There are only 173 women out of 2,200 urologists in
There’s a danger of a shortfall in surgery
or orthopaedics. People think, wrongly in my view, that only
men can operate because they are stronger, cooler and more courageous. And there are
also objective difficulties. For example, operating theatre hours are hard to
reconcile with a family. We need to rethink shifts and maternity conditions”. The FNOMCEO president is not in favour
of quotas that
would set aside jobs for the sex that continues to be stronger, at least on the
management front. The medical profession may be undergoing a sex change but
most heads of hospital departments and top managers are still men.
Lorenza Sassi, a dental surgeon and member
of the
Margherita De Bac
Are
There Too Many Women Doctors?
A
top female doctor has warned the medical profession's influence could be
damaged by the number of women choosing to be medics.
BBC
News
Tuesday,
3 August, 2004
Professor
Carol Black, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said that feminising medicine would cause the profession to lose its
prestige and 'power'.
She said
she believed female-dominated professions such as teaching no longer saw
themselves as "powerful".
She
added: "We are feminising medicine. It has been
a profession dominated by white males. What are we going to have to do to
ensure it retains its influence?
"Years
ago, teaching was a male-dominated profession - and look what happened to
teaching. I don't think they feel they are a powerful profession any more. Look
at nursing, too."
Women
doctors are expected to outnumber men within a decade.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3528786.stm
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