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"In addition, female physicians are usually better listeners than their male colleagues. Moreover, female doctors are much less dismissive of complaints when test results come back negative. So a female family practitioner could be the best bet for someone who has symptoms for which the doctor can find no cause. Finding a sympathetic and caring female physician, however, is partly a matter of geography. California has the highest percentage of female physicians—12 percent of the country's total." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "After California, there are seven states with high numbers of female physicians—New York, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, and New Jersey. female physicians in those states make up an additional 39 percent of the total for the entire country. So if you live in one of these eight states, you may have an easier time finding a female physician than you'd have in one of the other forty-two states. But with more and more women entering medical school, these numbers will improve in the near future." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.) "Studies show that many patients find female physicians to be better listeners and explainers, less likely to dismiss your symptoms than a male doctor would. The differences may be even more acute if you're a woman. My colleagues and I have found that women with CFS feel less stigmatized by female doctors than by their male counterparts. Of course, there are exceptions to these findings, so you need not despair if you can't find a physician who is female. Male physicians who listen and care can do the job just as well, and hundreds of my patients can attest to that." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

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