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Female primary care physicians (PCPs) also spend more time per visit with both male and female patients compared to male doctors, which results in a loss of revenue for them, according to a 2020 ...
In the study of people ages 65 and older, 8.15% of women treated by female physicians died within 30 days, compared with 8.38% of women treated by male physicians.
The study compared hospitals in Canada where female surgeons and anesthesiologists made up more than 35% of the surgical teams to hospitals with a smaller share of female doctors.
Strength and type of immune response differ in males and females. Generally speaking, females have a stronger immune response than males. [113] [114] This results in males having a higher morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases than females do, and lower rates of auto-immune diseases. [115]
This observation supports the notion that female patients are often taken less seriously than their male counterparts when reporting medical issues. [88] In 1990, the National Institutes of Health acknowledged the disparities in disease research between men and women. At this time, the Office of Research on Women's Health was created, primarily ...
Joan Refshauge (1906–1979) was the first female doctor appointed to Papua New Guinea by the Australian government in 1947. [147] [148] Henriette Bùi Quang Chiêu (1906–2012) was the first female doctor in Vietnam. [149] [150] Sophie Redmond (1907–1955) became the first female doctor in Suriname after graduating from medical school in ...
A 2020 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that female doctors spend more time with their patients than their male colleagues — clocking in 2.4 additional minutes per ...
[10] A retrospective analyses of people infected with the common cold found that doctors underrate the symptoms of men, and are more willing to attribute symptoms and illness to women than men. [11] Women live longer than men in all countries, and across all age groups, for which reliable records exist. [12] In The United States, men are less ...