<p>
</p>
<p>But if they are prone to age discrimination, would the occasional medical or dental appointment really be what induces actual age discriminatory actions?</p>
<p>Then again, there may be something else in play here: gender. Women in general (even when not pregnant) have more frequent medical appointments than men do, because women have more recommended screenings and the fact that men are often resistant to going to the doctor for medical problems. An older woman working with younger men may find that her medical appointments are much more frequent than those of the younger men; an older man may not see that so much, especially if the younger co-workers include women.</p>