Psychiatrists and psychologists also reap financial gains from women, who make up the majority of their patients. Additionally, the majority of tranquilizers are prescribed to treat women. Along with all that, doctors are becoming glorified beauticians and are doing it in the name of science. And subspecialties are being created merely to direct the dollar flow, rather than to meet a medical need. Sports gynecology, for example, is a subspecialty that came into existence only after women started to jog.
American medicine continues to be dominated by men.
Sadly, even the great influx of women into doctoring, the more highly educated women in nursing, and the feminist awakenings of the last twenty years have had little effect on the trend. All letters to the editor are for publication and may be edited for length and clarity.