Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Being the doctor-judge: doctors and women sensitive medical practices
Other Titles:	Healthsharing Women : the newsletter of the Victorian women's health infor[cut]
Authors:	Gridley, Heather Moore, Susan Johnson, Kelley
Keywords:	Health
Year:	2001
Publisher:	Women's Health Victoria
Citation:	11 (3), February 2001
Notes:	Drawing upon Foucault’s analysis of the knowledge based power of professions in modern society, the article examines medical practitioner’s perception of their role in relation to female patients and the particular anxieties doctors face in dealing with gender-sensitive and/or borderline medical issues, such as domestic violence, child abuse, sexual issues, pap smears and breast examinations. Specific difficulties identified included maintaining patient trust and professionalism whilst attempting to deal with one’s own anxieties, lack of training in how to deal appropriately with women from different cultural and/or linguistic backgrounds and conflicts of loyalty to colleagues and patients when complaints of malpractice or sexually inappropriate behaviour were made against other doctors. Concludes that placing doctors in the position of ‘doctor-judge’ can mean they act as judge in areas in which they are not properly trained and that presumptions of power and knowledge must continually be questioned if doctor-patient communication is to improve.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13614
ISSN:	10354387
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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