These chairs were used before male physicians dominated the delivery room.

Perhaps physicians, especially male physicians, have more authority in that population, which may affect whether patients take advice.

The local culture prohibited male physicians to examine, or even speak to women.

Overall, female physicians spend more time with each patient than do male physicians.

Nor is this prejudice limited to male physicians; women themselves exhibit it.

And to think that some male physicians actually believed that females could or should not know this.

A male physician writes us stiffly: You have the honor, if one can call it that, of being the first to make me cry.

Charity work would scarcely allow her to earn much of a living, which was why most male physicians wouldn't even consider it.

The male physicians refused to help with the nurse education plan if it involved the Blackwells.

In 1990, male physicians made $45,500 more than their female counterparts.