I prefer a man dr over any other. A woman dr is going to have the same equipment but her dealing with pain/illnesses is not going to be the same as mine and I am damned if I am going to have to suck it up just because she can deal differently.
Gina, males just do not understand woman. Go to a male doctor and even with 8 years of education they just don't THINK as a woman.
If the males specialise in heart, liver or kidneys, no problem both sexes have these organs and they both work the same way.
When it comes to woman, breeding machines with different hormones and a body built to be an incubator, this takes an expert, a Female Doctor to understand.
Yes, the male Doctors study the female body know the science behind the workings, but with their male patients they are most at ease-----They know what another male is going through.
Female doctors have no idea what infection of the prostrate gland feels like, but they know full well the feelings of an infected ovary.
I feel comfortable with a same sex Doctor today. Never felt this way until I ran into a Male GYN Doctor at a military hospital. The worse experience in my life and the Nurse in the room knew full well what was going on but turned her back and got busy with her clip board. She had seen all this before I gather but could not say a word, this was after all a Doctor----. Perhaps if his patients got together to complain something could have been done but as Military Dependents we all saw a different Doctor each time we went in for any problem.
One pregnancy I saw 5 different Doctors and baby was delivered by a Doctor I had never seen. Obama Care must be much like this.
Male Doctors and Male nurses are great when it comes to a broken bone and infections from bacteria on ones foot. When it comes to my female organs I want another female with the same body make up to be there.
Get real here Gina, go to a woman Doctor with heavy periods awful cramps and she is alert, calls for blood tests and wants to see again in 3 days. Go to a male Doctor and he sends you home telling you to take aspirin and if this gets worse in 2 weeks to call him.