From: "CE" 

On 28 mar, 14:38, Alan Ferris  wrote:

> How many medical personnel are women?  Who do you expect to save your
> life after you are pulled from a fire?

I`m not sure I expect anyone to save my life after a fire since the
probability of death is pretty high. Should I survive a fire, I`d expect a
human being to save my life, regardless of whether or not that person is
woman or a man.

Statistically speaking, it seems more likely that the person who would save
my life - if that person is a doctor - would be a man since I live in a
smaller city in a rural area. In rural areas, there are significantly more
male physicians than female physicians although that gap is decreasing. If
my doctor is a man, he`ll likely be older than if my doctor is female. If
my doctor is a woman, she`ll likely be younger than the male doctors and a
specialist of some kind.

I don`t have the most recent data at my fingertips. If you do, I`d be happy
to see it. the information I was able to get quickly from the net is,
admittedly, 10 years old and that`s a significant lapse of time since the
trend is towards more and more female doctors. In any case, the information
I consulted as in the Western Journal of Medicine, in a November 2000
article entitled Physicians and Rural America by Roger A Rosenblatt and L
Gary Hart.

All of that being said, I`m not sure how this is relevent to the conversation.

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