Doctors' Wives Association

Pathological grief in doctors' wives.

The mental health of doctors has received increasing attention in recent years, but articles on the doctor's wife and family remain scarce.' Those reports that do exist emphasise the wife's reluctance to express her dependence on her husband because he is already burdened with trying to meet the needs of his patients2 and her search for a personal identity that is not based solely on being a do...

Ignoring the obvious: doctors' wives as patients.

There is a widely held belief among doctors and nurses that when a colleague is in hospital, if anything can go wrong during the course of his illness it invariably will. To investigate this belief, we studied prospectively a group of pregnant doctors and doctors' wives, comparing the number of obstetric, paediatric, and psychiatric complications with those in two control groups of similar soci...

The association between discontinuing hormonal contraceptives and wives' marital satisfaction depends on husbands' facial attractiveness.

How are hormonal contraceptives (HCs) related to marital well-being? Some work suggests HCs suppress biological processes associated with women's preferences for partner qualities reflective of genetic fitness, qualities that may be summarized by facial attractiveness. Given that realizing such interpersonal preferences positively predicts relationship satisfaction, any changes in women's prefe...

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Managers and Their Wives