Physicians' wives evaluate their marriages, their husbands, and life in medicine: Results of the AMA-Alliance Medical Marriage Survey

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-59

  Sotile, Wayne M ^a   Sotile, Mary O ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Sotile Psychological Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PROGENY; REVIEW; SPOUSE; STANDARDIZATION; STEREOTYPY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SPOUSES;

EID: 1842591254     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.68.1.39.27730     Document Type: Review

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