Doctors and Patients: Gender Interaction in the Consultation

Academic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 148-155

  Zaharias, George ^a,c   Piterman, Leon ^b,c   Liddell, Merilyn ^d  

^a Department of General Practice ^*  (Australia)

^b Facultie of Medicine   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ALTRUISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RELATION; MALAYSIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ALTRUISM; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 1542348974     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200402000-00011     Document Type: Article

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