As a result, doctors may miss that some of their female patients show signs of autism.

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Other doctors simply don't want to broach the subject of sex with their adolescent female patients, he said.

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Female patients who've gone through a transvaginal surgery usually complain of pain they normally feel during their period.

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Mr Neale was struck off the Canadian medical register after he was found guilty of killing two female patients.

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In my metro Detroit plastic surgery practice, I estimate that 20% of my new female patients have recently undergone a divorce.

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She had checked herself into eight clinics with phantom illnesses and persuaded the other female patients to lend her money for a child (also phantom) who was going hungry at home.

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The conditional registration order, in force until October, includes that Dr Scholten must also not undertake consultations with female patients without a chaperone present and refrains from photographing female genitalia without consent.

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They perform a script based on the recollections of 40 surviving female long-stay patients in the mental health system at the time.

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Mammary tumors are probably particularly worrisome for the FDA because the population of patients that will use obesity drugs is predominantly female.

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And a study carried out in Scotland in the early 1990s found male GPs wearing a suit and tie and female doctors wearing a white coat who were most favoured, especially among older and richer patients.

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