TY - JOUR
AU1 - White, William G.
AB - Letter to the Editor The Linacre Quarterly 2018, Vol. 85(2) 99 Men and Women in Medicine ª Catholic Medical Association 2018 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0024363918770459 journals.sagepub.com/home/lqr Sister Elinor Gardner, O.P. (2017) opens her article, the beautiful vocation of consecrated life, but to “The Woman Physician as Antidote to the Ills of affirm the essential maternal nature of women and Modern Medicine,” with the question, “Is medicine the paternal nature of men. Sister Elinor points out afeminineprofession,oristhereafeminineway that medicine, to be true to its vocation, must obey of practicing medicine, distinct from a correspond- nature, not dominate it. This approach, urged upon ing masculine way?” us by the late Dr. Herbert Ratner, longtime leader She then quickly and effectively dismisses the of the Catholic Medical Association, is applicable contemporary notion that it is “sexist to isolate mas- to all physicians, male and female. (It also helps to culine and feminine aspects of a profession.” She be obedient to the Church, whose teachings can goes on to demonstrate that there is much of distinc- guard us in many ways from harming our patients.) tive value that women, by virtue of their maternal I have recently retired from forty-three years 
TI - Men and Women in Medicine
JF - The Linacre Quarterly
DO - 10.1177/0024363918770459
DA - 2018-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/men-and-women-in-medicine-GXApJntNrA
SP - 99
EP - 99
VL - 85
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve