Patients have lower rates of mortality when they are treated by female doctors, new research suggests. An international team of researchers analysed the data from more than 776,000 male and female ...

When you randomly need to see a medic, you likely end up seeing either a male or a female doctor purely by chance. You can bypass the randomness of whoever sees you by pre-selecting your doctor's ...

Hospitalized women are less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they are treated by female doctors, a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. According to NBC ...

Female physicians in the U.S. had higher suicide rates compared with women in the general population. Male physicians had lower suicide rates than their non-physician counterparts. Physicians who died ...

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Anupam B. Jena is a physician and economist at Harvard Medical School, co-author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health, and host of the ...

While many physicians may avoid discussing the subject, a study showed that who gets addressed with the honorific “Dr.” may depend on gender, degree and specialty. By Gina Kolata Dr. Yul Yang, a ...