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Interns are from Venus, consultants are from Mars: differential perception among clinicians.

OBJECTIVE: To test for the presence of sex-based differences in perception (the notion that men and women "think" differently, and that differences in perception are biologically based) among healthcare professionals. DESIGN: Prospective survey. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: 90 medical personnel at a tertiary care hospital in Newcastle, NSW. INTERVENTION: Healthcare professionals were shown two pictures that could be interpreted as depicting either a young or an old person, and a word that could be seen as geometric shapes. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The effects of sex, age, seniority, and specialisation in relation to the first impression of the image, the ability to change one's perception, and the speed of perception. RESULTS: Contrary to popular opinion, male physicians were more likely to perceive the older figures, and just as likely as women to be able to change their perception. Surgeons and junior staff were more likely to see, as well as being faster to form, an impression requiring abstract thought, and were more able to change their perceptions. CONCLUSIONS: Traditional sex stereotypes do not apply to medical personnel, but other age-based stereotypes, and professional rivalries (medical versus surgical) may have some empiric basis.

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PubMed2000

Clinicians are from Mars and pathologists are from Venus.

CONTEXT: Text reports convey critical medical information from pathologists, radiologists, and subspecialty consultants. These reports must be clear and comprehensible to avoid medical errors. Pathologists have paid much attention to report completeness but have ignored the corresponding issue of report comprehension. This situation presents an increasingly serious potential problem. As laboratories are consolidated and as reports are disseminated in new ways (eg, via the World Wide Web), the target audience becomes more diverse and less likely to have any contact with pathologists beyond the written reports themselves. OBJECTIVE: To compare clinician comprehension with pathologist intent in written pathology reports. METHODS: Typical surgical pathology reports relevant to surgeons and covering a range of specimen complexity were taken from our hospital files. Questionnaires based on these cases were administered open-book-examination style to surgical attending physicians and trainees during surgical conferences at an academic medical center. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Scores from questionnaires. RESULTS: Surgeons misunderstood pathologists' reports 30% of the time. Surgical experience reduced but did not eliminate the problem. Streamlined report formatting exacerbated the problem. CONCLUSIONS: A communication gap exists between pathologists and surgeons. Familiarity with report format and clinical experience help reduce this gap. Paradoxically, stylistic improvements to report formatting can interfere with comprehension and increase the number of misunderstandings. Further investigation is required to reduce the number of misunderstandings and, thus, medical errors.

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PubMed1998

Venus on the right.

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PubMed2002

Distinguishing Mars from Venus: emergence of gender biology differences in oral health and systemic disease.

We are learning to appreciate and understand that men and women have different genes and gene products (proteins), biochemistry and physiology, body weights and distribution of fats, and a few different tissues and organs. In such comparisons, we discover that women have a different prevalence for many oral and systemic diseases and disorders, and often illustrate differences in responses to disease mechanisms as well as to drug therapy and treatments. For example, consider the milestones of development, such as puberty or menopause, the unique differences in the prevalence of autoimmune diseases and disorders (Sjögren's syndrome, Hashimoto's disease), differences in the onset and progression of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, differences in response to radiation and chemotherapy, and the differences in chronic facial pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. This article highlights many opportunities to enhance the quality of oral health care for women.

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PubMed2003

[An hour with Venus-a life with Mercur].

In 1857 the police doctor in Copenhagen received an anonymous letter from a gentleman. He wants the physician to write a popular book about syphilis and describe how men, who were infected could treat themselves. Regarding to the letter this paper examines how the authorities and the danish physicians tried to stop the disease in the 1850's and to see how physicians were arguing for the regular prostitution in the city. The disease was spreadening very rapidly in these years and the physicians were very concerned about the new growing up population -the children, who also were suffering from the disease. No proper treatment was available in the 1850's. The severe cases were still treated with mercury like in the Middle Ages.

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PubMed2001

Improving communication between researchers and policy makers in long-term care or "researchers are from Mars; policy makers are from Venus".

This policy brief reports the results of a study that examined how policy makers acquire information about long-term care (LTC) and why research findings in the field often don't filter through to them. It describes the "brokers" that provide LTC research information to policy makers and outlines what can be done to make certain such information reaches policy makers and is suited to their needs. It concludes by recommending that more effort be put into disseminating LTC research information, both to communicate more effectively within the resource constraints that currently exist and to encourage increased investment in research brokering activities for the future.

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