Do women prefer a female breast surgeon?

• Egile Nagusiak: Asnat Groutz (Egilea), Hadar Amir (Egilea), Revital Caspi (Egilea), Eran Sharon (Egilea), Yifat Amir Levy (Egilea), Mordechai Shimonov (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: BMC, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Abstract Background Patient preferences regarding the gender of their physicians is a highly sensitive issue, which can be particularly salient in intimate medical situations. Previously published studies found that women tend to prefer female physicians, especially in the case of obstetricians and...