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and since most female doctors were educated by men, it's spilled over into their practice.

I had a patient many years ago, a granny lady who looked like her picture should have been on a package of cookies, who figured this out. I was in the room hanging an IV drug or something and an intern came in. She said something to him, he grunted and put his stethoscope into his ears. When the stethoscope came out, she started to whisper and he leaned just a little closer. She grabbed him by the necktie, looked into his eyes and staredt with "Now you can start listening, you little son of a bitch..." and I knew I was going to laugh so I left fast.

When I went back after a red faced intern almost ran out of that room, I asked "where the hell did that come from?" Turned out she was the first woman in a traditionally male business in the 50s and had done the speak softly and then grab them by the tie for years.

The last doc who refused to listen to me was a woman. I now go to an NP/PhD. She listens.