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Article: Women and doctors - guys just don't get it. (Dr. John Smith's book, "Women and Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Medical Treatment - and Mistreatment - in America Today")
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- September 22, 1992
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Women and Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Medical Treatment--and Mistrearment--in America Today
Dr. John Smith, a male gynecologist and author of the new book Women and Doctors, unequivocally states, "Men have no business being gynecologists. The role properly belongs to women. They are the only sex truly able to understand, empathize with and appropriately relate to women in the already difficult doctor-patient relationship."
Smith, 49, is a medical maverick who upset colleagues by starting the first HMO in Colorado Springs and now acts as a consultant on national health policy. In the book he discusses how research has centered almost ...