Women doctors should be paid more because they are more careful and spend more time with each patient.

Raw statistics are sometimes useless in adding to our enlightenment.

You got it!

Some are just not into churn em and burn em medicine. And...gee whiz!...sometimes they may actually be able to diagnose correctly in those circumstances where one size doesn't fit all. Whodathunk?! With the added benefit of not viewing their patients as walking dollar signs.

I've ever had. She is married with two very young children, works as long as 72 hour shifts, and still finds time to ask questions, listen to patients, and give them her undivided attention. She is really smart and very thorough.

I've had doctors like this jerk. Someone else referred to him as a "churn and burn" doctor. They treat patients like they are on an assembly line, never actually seeing a person there. Their fast pace is often careless and dangerous, not particularly healing.

I hope this idiot's name and face are spread all over the Internet.

...in family medicine who quit her original position in a "churn and burn' practice, because they objected to the amount of time she spent with patients.

She had the last laugh, though. She was hired by a Mayo Clinic Family Medicine practice and then also taught Family Medicine in the Mayo Clinic system.

I loved her so much and I was lucky that she was my doctor for many, many years. I still miss her a lot now that she finally retired.

are run like a Firestone dealership. Not only do they encourage doctors to see as many patients as possible in a given period of time, they also are expected to increase the bottom line with lots of add-ons, in the form of additional tests and procedures.

One newbie doctor charged me $7 to put a oximeter on my finger during an office visit. I had an oximeter in my purse! No one had ever charged me for that before or since, it is like charging you individually to take your temperature or weigh you. Too often they treat patients like consumers.

Good for your former doctor. Some people really go into medicine to be healers, not highly educated sales people.

I just rewatched an old movie from the nineties with William Hurt called The Doctor and it is as timely today as it was back then. Also I hadn't realized it was based on a true story.

Poor men trying to keep up with the girls, and just can't manage as well.

... does this doctor have a brain ?

Is he a gynecologist ?

What are you implying?

..every single one of my health care providers are women. My dentist fixed a broken crown for me on a Sat morning and brought both her infant and toddler with her. Hubby entertained toddler and infant in carrier in the room with us. Lets see big mouth dr tiggs do that!

Dr. Gary Tigges was born and raised in Bancroft, Iowa. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Physiology from the University of Iowa in 1988 and a Medical Degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine in 1992. Dr. Tigges completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Texas-Houston in 1995. He started his private practice at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano in 1995 and founded Plano Internal Medicine in 1996.

Dr. Tigges is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Tigges has been very active in the medical leadership at Presbyterian Hospital of Plano. He has served on the Medical Board since 1999 and was elected by his peers as President of the Medical Staff in 2006. He has also served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Bioethics Committee, the Peer Review Committee and currently chairs the Credentials Committee.

Dr. Tigges has served on councils for the Texas Medical Association and is a member of the Dallas County Medical Society.

Dr. Tigges’ community involvement includes previous board memberships of the Wellness Center of Plano and DIFFA Dallas. He currently serves as a board member for the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums and serves on the benefit committee for amfAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research). He is a member of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Dallas. He has traveled on medical relief missions to such places as Haiti, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Tigges’ hobbies include fitness, photography and world travel.

And that's why he thinks he "works harder" than his female colleagues. Because half his work is done for him by a woman.

Must be nice.

and the attitude to go with it.

Perhaps it's time to give women a chance? Sure couldn't be any worse! And might be quite a bit better!! Won't know unless we try and see...

My sister was a doctor who hated being forced to see more patients and spend less time with them. If this guy thinks taking more pains to do a good job is a reason to be paid less...

I'm at a loss. This guy is seeing the bottom line. More patients, more money, bigger salary. If he is a bean counter, which he seems to be, then he does not value patient care or patient relationships.

What would probably make him see the light is if a woman doctor had a bigger practice, more patients, and more referrals, because she took better care of her patients.

But otherwise, I don't think he'll be swayed.

So he can find out about the truly long hours women physicians work every day because their husbands refuse to pitch in.

I worked as a doctor, married to a doctor. And after working an equal number of hours every day in the hospital, guess who cooked dinner every night? It sure wasn't hubby.

Luckily things changed.

Could he be saying that male physicians rush patients through to see as many as possible and make more money than female physicians who spend more time with individual patients, listen to their concerns and throughtfully address them - a trait not valued by our current reimbursement system? As far as working the long hours, how about an evidence-based opinion.

Pity his patients, or should I say clients.

But studies of the pay gap consistently find a number of factors that lead to lower wages. Think of them as pluses or minuses, doesn't matter, because they lead to more or less money and it's money we're talking about.

However, the studies also consistently find that even after accounting for all the factors in some principled statistical way, there's still a wage gap. How wide depends on specialty. In fact, there's at least one specialization which women make more.

But does he cite any evidence besides his opinion?

without really listening to them.

Sounds like he may treat the symptons and not the person.

He runs his own practice. His quote strongly implies that he pays female employees less because of his personal bias. He's at risk for a federal lawsuit.

get it off your shoe. FUCK YOU Gary!

If I had not had her as my doctor, I would have been dead 3 years ago. She was the doctor who helped confirm a diagnosis for a fatal autoimmune disease, put together a specialist team, coordinated that team, and keeps a close eye on my lab reports. I don't know any male doctor that could have done more. She still tells me that her job is to continue to give me a long and healthy (as possible) life. I trust her implicitly, and will keep her as long as I can.

For most, only a small percentage of a physician’s pay actually depends on quality, including how patients perceive them say by spending more time talking to patients.

Thus, if a man in the same specialty as a woman, spends a lot of time taking off for golf, kids, or whatever, he’s likely to make less than a woman who works more. Don’t really have a problem with that, although I wish quality of care had more to do with reimbursement.

Obviously, there are other factors including who started the medical group, how it’s grown, whether physician is straight salary or a partner, etc. But the check that comes from Medicare or a commercial insurer for seeing a patient for a similar service, is the same whether performed by a male or female. Often that goes into compensation for physicians based upon “productivity.”

So sick of misogynists in my profession...

I'm not sure there's anybody in the field who works harder than they do, and I know you couldn't pay me enough to do that job.

I should know, the bulk of my job is billing charges for hospitalists. I have one doc who has four separate billing codes because she works in four different areas of the hospital. Not only does she put in the hours, she beats the other doctors in the quality of her documentation, makes the fewest errors in her billing orders, and still stands out among the other doctors in her department for her rapport with patients. This guy can stuff it.
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I saw a male rheumatologist. There were times I would go for an appointment and would be there for 2 or more hours. When I switched to a new female dr in the practice, boy did things change-for the better. She really listened to me, tweaked my treatment (my arthritis got better) got me in and out in about an hour. I’m still seeing her after 29 years. I found out later the male doctor would sometimes go into his office and sit and read while he still had patients waiting to see him.

It’s good to be king.

Is he an Elvis impersonator on the side?

Maybe he made it himself.

doctors and deserve income equality. Are the dark ages here again - gah.

We always expect her appointment will run later than scheduled because the Dr. always sits and talks with us in detail for at least 15 minutes and she is doing the same I imagine for all her other patients. I've never been to a doctor that will take the time she does.

Perhaps that's why this guy thinks female doctors don't work - in general, most female physicians I've run across *always* spend time getting to know the issue, where men (in general, not always) ask a couple of questions and then leave everything else to the assistants. Quality over quantity.

What normal person not singing in Vegas wears a suit like that?

Nurses are going to make him wish he'd never been born. As a retired RN, I know this for a fact.

Fuck this asshole.

This man is an absolute fool. Women and men in every profession just work differently. Viva la difference!!!