The title is: Changing gender roles and sexism in medicine. It was written by Lori Eldred on
May 31 2006. The publishing information for this article is found at this link: http://www.vermontbiz.com/article/june/health-care-gender-roles. Doctors in our society are predominantly male and come largely from middle class backgrounds and respected professions. Their patients differ in that they are mostly from working class background and are non-professionals. Their women patients differ in gender, which adds another dimension to the social distance between them. This distance decreases when the patient is from the middle class and or is a professional. The