TY - JOUR
AU - Vincent, M.O.
AB - FEMALE PHYSICIANS AS PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS* M.O. VINCENT, M.D.! The year 1975 not only marked Interna­ the students who went into medicine had tional Women's Year, but it is also the first had an insecure childhood than those in the year that a Canadian Medical School class control group. Further, that this group of contained over 50 percent of women. In physicians was the most apt to find September 1975 there were 52 percent of medicine "too much of a struggle" as women in the first-year medical class at measured by three criteria: seeking McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. psychotherapy; excessive use of alcohol; This is also a reminder that female physi­ excessive use of drugs. This prospective cians are becoming an increasingly impor­ study has been most useful but not one of tant part of the health care delivery system. the 46 physicians in the study was a woman. Only recently have physicians begun to The role of women in medicine is of study their own health, life-style, and increasing importance. In 1911, women morbidity. Most of the current information made up 2.6 percent of Canadian physi­ available about life-style, problems and cians, whereas in 1964, 7 percent of 
TI - Female Physicians as Psychiatric Patients1
JF - Canadian Psychiatric Association Journal
DO - 10.1177/070674377602100702
DA - 1976-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/female-physicians-as-psychiatric-patients1-UTuf3HFRBx
SP - 461
EP - 465
VL - 21
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -