Awareness of gender in healthcare

Abstract

Issues relating to gender and health are quite intriguing. When interacting with patients one observes that men and women have different health-related concerns, deal with situations differently, present with different complaints and so on. On attempting to discuss practice-related gender issues with colleagues, most do not see the relevance to their daily practice. Within academia, the feedback would generally be that outside of the well recognised focussed specialities relating to male and female-specific medicine and treatment, there is nothing significant worth further investigation.