Marital Aid

Marriage and the practice of medicine can make a bad mix. Preoccupation with study and work causes many doctors to ignore their families; neglected doctors' wives may try to lose their loneliness in liquor or with other men. Recognizing these and other problems, Dr. Robert Taubman, a psychiatrist at the University of Oregon Medical School, has come up with an unusual program to reduce physicians' high marital mortality rate. Taubman has produced an hour-long video tape that defines and discusses the major frictions to be expected in medical marriages. The taped interviews with four psychiatrists cover, among other things, differences in maturity between doctors and their wives, the strains imposed by the husband's long and intense work schedule, and the wife's resentment over being left alone at home. Presented at meetings of county medical associations, Taubman's program appears to be filling a definite need. At one session, Taubman was told to keep his presentation short "because everyone in the county gets to bed by 9:30." Couples were still asking him questions as midnight approached.

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