Do You Care If Your IVF Doctor is Male or Female?
Let's pretend that you need to get
infertility treatments. Close your eyes and imagine the perfect doctor to treat you for the problem of infertility. Now open your eyes. Was the doctor that you pictured a man or a woman?
Although most people won't specifically choose a
fertility doctor based on the doctor's gender, most people do have a preference between male or female doctors when it comes to choosing someone to assist them with their fertility issues.
The problem of infertility is a really tough one to deal with. It's emotionally draining and it goes right to the core of the person who is coping with it. This causes people to be particularly sensitive to the details of their care and this includes have a natural preference for working with either a male or a female regarding the treatment.
This doesn't necessarily mean that a majority of women prefer one gender of doctor over the other. In other words, you can't say that "most women prefer a female infertility doctor". Instead, the preference has to do with a lot of personal choices and pros/cons weighed by the individual patient based on biases and assumptions that have been built up over time.
Question of the Day: When choosing a fertility doctor, should you take the gender of the doctor into consideration?photo link
Posted by Kathryn on 8/18/2008 10:13:45 AM
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