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What Is Different for Women Physicians?

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The Impaired Physician

Abstract

In the past decade medical schools have admitted substantially greater numbers of women students. Currently, 26.5% of matriculated students are women, compared with 9% in 1968.1 That women are no longer such a small minority and that their representation in the profession is continuing to increase are facts with far-reaching implications.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Carol C. Nadelson & Malkah T. Notman

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  1. Health Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Stephen C. Scheiber

  2. School of Medicine and Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA

    Brian B. Doyle

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Nadelson, C.C., Notman, M.T. (1983). What Is Different for Women Physicians?. In: Scheiber, S.C., Doyle, B.B. (eds) The Impaired Physician. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4304-2_2

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