TY - JOUR T1 - Effect of a principal's gender on consultation patterns JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 654 LP - 658 VL - 33 IS - 255 AU - M. Elan Preston-Whyte AU - Robin C. Fraser AU - John L. Beckett Y1 - 1983/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/33/255/654.abstract N2 - This report describes a study of consultation patterns of male and female partners in a group practice. It was found that fulltime principals of both sexes had similar levels of workload; that patients chose to consult a doctor of the same sex not only for sex-specific disorders but also for conditions which were not sex-linked; that female partners were seeing a different age distribution of patient; and that doctor-initiated appointments varied not only between individual partners but were also related to both the sex of the doctor and the sex of the patient. ER -