The impact of gender stereotypes on the evaluation of general practitioners' communication skills: An experimental study using transcripts of physician-patient encounters.

OBJECTIVE: The present study has been designed to test for the effect of physicians' gender on the perception and assessment of empathic communication in medical encounters. METHODS: Eighty-eight volunteers were asked to assess six transcribed interactions between physicians and a standardized patie...

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Published in:Patient Education & Counseling Vol. 69; no. 1-3; pp. 200 - 206
Main Authors: Nicolai J, Demmel R
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Elsevier B.V. Dec2007
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