Frum women doctors

kol hakavod

Go for it! As a frum woman, I appreciate having frum women doctors.

Absolutely fine. My wife is in medical school now going for a degree in the medical field.. if she’s single she might want to wait till she’s married to persue a degree of this nature depending on her background…

Go for it!! I was pre med in college and eventually gave it up..after 3 long years and switched majors. It is such an amazing thing to be a physician, but I knew for me I wanted to have kids young, really raise them and not rely on nanny/sitters, and not spend the first few years of marriage with my nose in the books. If it is for you and you think you can handle the work load, and all that being a frum wife and mother entails, I say go for it!!

147 – That was quick -here today -gone tomorrow. Or should I say here for a minute -gone the next. It came back. Must have gone for editing.

147 -“& specialty fields of women’s diseases & issues, should most preferentially be dealt with, by a woman Dr.”

Now why did you say this? Do you mean Frum men should Not be OB’s?

Or do you mean all Ob/gyn’s should be female? If the latter I can tell you with my kids -the coldest Docs were the women. One had kids -the other didn’t. The one with the kids was the worse – no bedside manner. The males were much more pleasant to deal with.

From my professional experience I’d say was the same as my parenting experience. The top Ob/gyn’s that I’ve come across were all male.

MorahRach -“Also calling me a wannabe makes you sound like a .. Well jerk. I don’t attempt to compare myself to someone in the

Medical field. Why did you have to try and make me feel foolish? No need to try and put me down.”

Maybe you posted this because it’s late at night.

What I’m going to say next probably belongs in the topic under Gender Intellect.

Let’s see my post started out talking to you -I’ll quote:

“You make it sound like you went 3 years Med school and gave it up. Pre-med is just science oriented courses -almost nothing to do with medicine.”

Upto here had to do with you -then I continued on a tangent.

“I know s/o who finished med school and decided not to go to a residency. In other words he gave up medicine.

I don’t shed any tears on wannabes. I do shed tears on all those who are out there and are totally incompetent.”

The wannabe part was refering to what I just posted. I was or was Not including you in that part. In other words, I was making a general comment related to what I just wrote.

Maybe you need to sleep on this. G-Nite.

Health – What the heck is your problem??!! Did MorahRach do something to hurt you?! That was so mean the way you just treated her! Stop being defensive, man up and apologize!

You don’t deserve a response.. So I won’t give one!

Health:

“Now why did you say this? Do you mean Frum men should Not be OB’s?

Or do you mean all Ob/gyn’s should be female?…..The top Ob/gyn’s that I’ve come across were all male.”

It’s nice to hear that a man approves of male Ob/gynos. I will not state my opinion on what I think of men who choose to go into the field. Suffice it to say that as a woman, I respectfully disagree.

I am a woman and would prefer a male ob-gyn even though i have used women (frum too) before and most of them have been QUITE insensitive. That is not to say that there are not frum women or any women ob’s that ARE sensitive or males that are utterly horrible. Generally speaking, MOST (not all) women will agree that men are not only more competent in this area but more sensitive in many cases.

To suggest that men that go into this field have some sinister or perverted motivations is completely ridiculuos and immature. This field is about bringing BABIES into the world, preserving women’s health, treating various ailments… I don’t understand such ignorance masquerading as tznius or whatever. If you want to use a woman ob-gyn … ok. But an ob-gyn that is a male is not a man, but a PHYSICIAN and is trained to view things through the prism of his training, etc.. There are boundaries and most normal people can understand the difference. Of course, there are cases that i won’t elaborate upon where a woman would be further traumatized by a male doctor… not because of the doctor, but because of the woman and her particular experience.

Health: “I can tell you with my kids -the coldest Docs were the women.” – you can’t even acknowledge it was your wife the docs were cold to. It’s a pity you’re so biased against women.

I had an amazing female OB/GYN with my first birth. I had a patronizing, condescending male OB/GYN with my second. I agree with interjection – I don’t know why men go into this field.

I just had a baby a few weeks ago bH, and I had a male ob and I love him!!! He was the only doctor I saw throughout my pregnancy and he was so kind and patient, at first I was nervous because he was a man, and he was really amazing. When I went into labor he was not on call and I had a woman deliver me.. Who was fantastic! BH no complaints about either one, I was a little upset he was not there but I could not have asked for a better experience. So I think it depends on the person, not necessarily if it is a man or woman.

mommamia22 -“Health

Are you trying to be callous?”

Not at all.

“3 years of pre-med science isn’t fluff. It’s hard courses that require a lot of work. You know that being in the medical field. Maybe it isn’t medical school, but “it ain’t no walk in the park”.”

True science courses aren’t easy. But my point was that Pre-med is Not medical school and you really aren’t learning any medicine.

I think men need to ask their LOR before deciding to become an OBGYN. Some of the things that a male OBGYN would have to do would be completely assur for the average male, more so than any other medical field. A male who wants to go into that field probably has to ask a halachic shaila if his particular situation warrants going into that field. Obviously, an OBGYN himself is not violating those issurim, but there would probably have to be a good reason to put oneself in that situation.

My Pedatriation is a Frum Female who treats her patients almost as well as her own kids. I did have a frum male Pediatriation originally and he was not as caring.

The only point of this i, There are caring Male Doctors and Caring Female doctors and there are Jaded Male Doctors and Jaded female doctors

Gender does not make you a good or bad doctor

As a woman who prefers female docs, but can rarely find any good ones in my neighborhood, I applaud ALL women who go into this very challenging field. I agree about the Hatzolah remark, BTW. Women in labor should have the option of a female medic with them, if that’s what they want. Trouble is, how many women are willing to drop everything (including their families) to go out on a call? (No, it’s not the same thing for the guys).

oomis -“I agree about the Hatzolah remark, BTW. Women in labor should have the option of a female medic with them, if that’s what they want.”

They can have this option if “Ezras Noshim” (R. Freier’s org.) gets off the ground. Hatzolah will not take females, no matter how many people think they should. You can mutter that they are wrong all you want, but that won’t change their position.

OOmis -“When women do, they are cold and unfeeling.”

Practice what you preach. If you believe that these women are just

“efficient” and “knowledgeable”, then why did you write -“I have had cold women docs”?!?!?!?

Health, you may have misunderstood the intent of my post. I HAVE had cold female docs AND really warm and nurturing ones as well. I merely pointed out that when certain types of women are in the medical field, their demeanor is often perceived as “cold”, when the same personality in a man would be overlooked as being his professionalism, That does not mean it is ok for doctors of either gender to be unfeeling when treating a HUMAN BEING, not a set of symptoms on a clinical chart.