jobmd:

Oh please. The hazing that older male docs perp on defenseless interns, especially male, is almost as bad as the abuse that Dr. House joyfully engages in on the TV show. Stop making everything a sex issue. It is a general abuse of power issue. If anything, young women in medicine get a break from the sadistic older men in the profession because they are afraid of a lawsuit. Answer a question. You would you trust more? A nurse with 20 years of experience or an M.D. with 2? As an M.D. I can tell you I go with experience not title.

I don't have an M.D., but my mother does - and more than twenty years of experience in practice to boot. She'd say that yes, female doctors do experience sexism, both from nurses and other doctors, and from both men and women.

Of course, the types of crap are different depending on who's dishing it out. With nurses, a female doctor has to work harder to establish her authority. With male doctors, sometimes, well...they don't say (or imply) that she has no place in the profession because she's a woman, but they do the kinds of stupid, oblivious things that people do when they honestly think they're too smart to be sexists.