And women patients have it even tougher than men. Sue Huang, vice-president of Titan Geosynthetics and director of both the Taipei Association for Promotion of Women's Rights and the League of Taiwan Women, says that women not only feel at a professional disadvantage with doctors, they also feel at a gender disadvantage.
台灣女人連線理事長黃淑英指出，男醫師對女病人而言，除了有專業的壓力外，還有性別上的壓力。