Personally, my experience is that women doctors are generally better, care more about their patients and more competent than the average male doctor.

@snytiger6 I agree. I have had the worst care from male doctors who liked to pat me on the knee and then discuss my medical status with my husband. She’s obviously brainwashed by the patriarchy into believing that subjugation of women and misogyny is the natural order of things.

@Killtheskyfairy Back in 2011, a female ophthalmologist intern who examined my eyes saw I was bleeding inside my eye. On finding out I had no primary care doctor, she ordered blood tests herself, and when she got the results back, she called me at home and told me to go to the emergency room, as my white blood cell count was extremely high (I found out late it measured at over 80,000). In the emergency room, even though they had the results of the first blood count, they repeated it,and then admitted me with a diagnosis of leukemia. However, it seems the doctors argued about the exact diagnosis, as they could not agree on whether to diagnose it as chronic or acute. I think it was that I was not in any pain at the time that decided they'd say it was chronic and not acute. Anyway, the diagnosis put me a a drug regime, which appears to have cured me. Anyway, back to the eye doctor. That she made the call, she became to be well thought of, and at the end of internship she was offered a permanent position with OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University). She is still my doctor for my vision issues (I have been partially blind for over 30 years), and she even did a cataract surgery on one of my eyes. Anyway, she did make a primary diagnosis of leukemia, but sent me to the hospital to have the diagnosis confirmed. She actually cared enough to order the blood test, which should have been done by a primary care physician, which I didn't have. Most male specialists would not have bothered.