Health professionals' sex and attitudes of health science students to health claims

Introduction  The huge influx of women into medicine may modify discriminatory attitudes towards health professionals. The aim of this study was to confirm the possible influence of health professionals' biological sex on the perception of the suitableness of health claims and on the attribution of responsibility in the case of presumed malpractice.

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