[Gender neutrality in medical research--possible and desirable?]

Medical science has been produced by men. A female surgeon concludes that, compared with complications in male patients, complications in female patients have been underrepresented in medical literature. In surgery the choice of fields of research and surgical methods is based mainly on the personal evaluations of the scientists, (female or male), and only partly on legitimatized scientific parameters. There are still very few women researchers in medical science. This science should be produced by both male and female researchers if it is to be equally fair and offer equally good medical service to female and male patients.