Gender Issues

Study Finds Physician Gender Influences Ordering of Imaging Studies

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 21st, 1997

Female physicians are 40 percent more likely than their male counterparts to order diagnostic imaging studies for their patients, reports Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the July 1997 issue of Journal of General Internal Medicine.

"This may be due to the different practice styles of male and female physicians or differences in the interactions among patients and physicians with the same or different gender," says Max Rosen, MD, radiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, and lead author of the study, "Utilization of Outpatient Diagnostic Imaging."

Researchers examined the...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1997-07-21)

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