Females in Medicine: A Waste of Money.

How would you feel if you went to see your GP about an illness and halfway through the consultation she started breast feeding her baby?
Wouldn't you expect her to give her patient her full attention?
Or do you expect her to do both at the same time?

Why on earth would a Doctor do that?

Have you not heard of breast pumps?

Have you ever heard of a breast pump?

Women have just as much of a right to work as men do, just because they are the more maternal ones doesn't mean they have to stay at home.... My dad brought me and my brothers and sisters up and got custody of us all when he divorced my mum, it doesn't always have to be the mother at home.

I hope one day your ass will be saved by a female doctor and you realise what a tit you were.

Hmm. 70+ neg rep for the OP.

Of course, if it was a girl commenting on how men are statistically worse drivers than females, I'm guessing it wouldn't be quite so high.

But quality of driving is different to service to medicine as a career. There are tens of thousands who yearn to become doctors, and are willing to go into medicine for the long haul. But even if they are very suitable doctors, they miss out on a place for a woman who, according to statistics so no sexism involved here, are more likely to leave medicine long before 10 years after medical school have passed. Driving is something you can learn in a year or two tops, and really you can learn by yourself or with a member of family, ignoring the fact of illegality.

You shouldn't need to be CONVINCED to stay in medicine. If you work hard to get into medicine, and you quit, the money was not worth it. It is not the Universities fault. If the people, especially females, think that they wull not work till the retirement age to look after their kids, then the medical school place can be given to a male/female who will definitely work till retirement. What's the point of spending your whole life working so hard to get into medical school and train as a doctor if you're just going to quit after 4 years??!!

People don't act independently of their environment. They are influenced by it. I don't see why you're against changing the environment so that more people stay in medicine. That seems a far better option than recruiting doctors with worse medical skills (who just happen, because of their environment, to be more inclined to work for longer).

by the way in my school a female teacher got maternity leave two years ago and she hasn't been back since. She left.

No, it's not sexist. Women need more flexible hours if they have their own children to look after and washing up etc to get on with so nursing suits them better.

But quality of driving is different to service to medicine as a career. There are tens of thousands who yearn to become doctors, and are willing to go into medicine for the long haul. But even if they are very suitable doctors, they miss out on a place for a woman who, according to statistics so no sexism involved here, are more likely to leave medicine long before 10 years after medical school have passed. Driving is something you can learn in a year or two tops, and really you can learn by yourself or with a member of family, ignoring the fact of illegality.

If she is a busy doctor with a long day to get through and no child care in place(eg child minder ill with swine flu and male partner run off with another woman) she would nave no choice except to bring her baby to work, as we have seen happen on soaps such as Casualty, which are very true to life. OR what else could she do? She couldn't just leave her baby at home on its own and couldn't leave it with a child minder who wasn't there because she had swine flu.
If the baby was in the surgery in its cot and started crying for food, she could hardly ignore it , could she?

If she is a busy doctor with a long day to get through and no child care in place(eg child minder ill with swine flu and male partner run off with another woman) she would nave no choice except to bring her baby to work, as we have seen happen on soaps such as Casualty, which are very true to life. OR what else could she do? She couldn't just leave her baby at home on its own and couldn't leave it with a child minder who wasn't there because she had swine flu.
If the baby was in the surgery in its cot and started crying for food, she could hardly ignore it , could she?