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WDYT of an all female pediatrician practice?
when I chose our peds practice it was all female. 3 doctors and then nurses obviously too. I just sort of assumed they were friends or something (the docs) and established a practice together.
Well now they have expanded and there are maybe 3 more doctors and I 2 or maybe 3 NP's. More nurses etc. So now I just counted on the website 23 staff - all female.
I'm getting a bit 'wtf' about it to be honest. Why are there no men?
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Re: WDYT of an all female pediatrician practice?
Have you asked? In 10 years of taking my kids to various pedi offices, I've never once seen a male nurse. I read somewhere that men are much more likely to choose ER nursing position than doctor's offices. So that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Maybe they've interviewed male doctors but no male is willing to take on a job with that many females
yeah i don't mind the nurses it's just bizarre IMO to look at the 'about us' page on their website and note that there is not one male there in any capacity (medical, administrative, nothing!).
oh and no i haven't asked. i don't really know how to!
That IS sorta odd! I've never been in a practice that contained just females. (whether family practice, pediatrician, OB/midwives, dentist.. all had both female and males).
Err not the same, but our local Dunkin' Donuts has all female staff. It's the strangest thing to me (and very dramatic behind the counter whenever we go).
I always just assume it's 'fluke' when that happens, just happens to be.
But out of 23 and no males, that's kinda weird to me too. I'm not sure I would necessarily question it, but it IS weird.
We have had two female pediatricians, and both were part of an all-female pediatrics department within a larger system of many male and female doctors. I think it's just that more females want to work with children and go into pediatrics.
We have a urgent care near us that has many nice male nurses.
We now have a male doctor, but he's a family doctor, so sees all five of us, as opposed to being a pediatrician.
oh! ok that I didn't know.
DD 1/29/07 -
There's a documented phenomenon across all kinds of professions that when the percentage of women hits a certain point (I forget what that number is) then the percent of men who choose to enter drops suddenly and the average salary for that profession drops too.
More women become peds as the hours are more flexible. My peds office is part of a huge medical system and at my office - out of the 7 docs, only 2 are males. None of the NPs are male. And one of the males that works there rarely sees patients as he has a part time other role within the system. Most of the women work 3-4 days a week and it works out really nice for the them. The one male doc works full time and is horrible with the kids - zero bed side manner.
Interesting.
At our pedi office, there are a couple of male doctors, and a male nurse. I was surprised there was a male nurse, but DS really responded well to him (talking baseball, football, etc.).
When one of the male doctors at our practice asked DS what he was going to be for Halloween when he was 3 he said a doctor, I told the doctor that both kids are being surgeons but DS insists that DD would be a nurse. The doctor jokingly told DS that he is sorry to break it to him but there are more women becoming doctors these days than men.
Oh, and we have a male nurse at our practice, honestly not sure if he is really a nurse as he never gives shots but I think he is in college.
Coming late to the post...
DH is a medical assistant and had his heart set on peds. It was VERY difficult to get any peds offices to even accept his resume, let alone give him an interview. I think the PP was correct in that it is now considered a 'female specialty'.