CMA opposes gender discrimination against doctors

Discrimination against doctors with HIV must end.

The English Department of Health has consulted on its proposals to change the management of healthcare workers who are infected with HIV. It recommends relaxing the restriction on suchworkers performing “exposure prone procedures,” provided that they are taking combination antiretroviral therapy, they are regularly reviewed by HIV and occupational health doctors, and their plasma viral load is ...

Measuring and testing for gender discrimination in physician pay: English family doctors.

In 2008 the income of female GPs was 70%, and their wages (income per hour) were 89%, of those of male GPs. We estimate Oaxaca decompositions using OLS models of wages and 2SLS models of income and propose a set of new direct tests for within workplace gender discrimination. The direct tests are based on a comparison of the differences in income of female and male GPs in practices with varying ...

Complaints against doctors.

Competing interests: PK directs a university unit that generates income from teaching communication skills. provenance and peer review: Commissioned; not externally peer reviewed. Could be reduced by identifying and remedying poor communication skills early on Clinical communication skills are at the heart of medical practice, and poor performance is an important factor in the origins of compla...

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism

Chaperone: For or Against Doctors

599 On June 26th 2007 and October 16th 2008, Korean newspapers reported two separate incidents in which two women alleged that their male doctors sexually assaulted them during a gastroscopy and a gynaecological examination, respectively. As a consequence, an internist was convicted with sexually assaulting more than 3 of his female patients under sedation in a 2 month period, while a gynaecolo...