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  2. Do women make better physicians? New study finds patients ...

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    Although the positive impact was greater in female patients — particularly those who were severely ill — the research revealed that both men and women under the care of female doctors ...

  3. Gender bias in medical diagnosis - Wikipedia

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    The differences between men and women are also seen at the cellular level. For example, the ways immune cells convey pain signals are different in men and women. [14] As a result of these biological differences, men and women react to certain drugs and medical treatments differently. [13] One example is opioids.

  4. Women are less likely to die when treated by female doctors ...

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    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.

  5. Health survival paradox - Wikipedia

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    Sex gap in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy [1]. The male-female health survival paradox, also known as the morbidity-mortality paradox or gender paradox, is the phenomenon in which female humans experience more medical conditions and disability during their lives, but live longer than males.

  6. Undertreatment of pain - Wikipedia

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    The female experience of having to differentiate between normal biological pain and outside pain (illness, disease, etc.) is an experience unique to women which is why they are most often gaslit into believing the pain from injury, illness or disease comes from the processes and the pain they are expected to tolerated associated with birthing ...

  7. Why do women fare better with female doctors? Medicare study ...

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    Female patients have significantly lower rates of 30-day mortality and readmission when cared for by female physicians. This is the finding of a new analysis of 750,000 Medicare recipients ...

  8. Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

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    The lifetime prevalence of PTSD is about 10-12% in women and 5-6% in men. [43] Women are also four times more likely to develop chronic PTSD compared to men. [44] There are observed differences in the types of symptoms experienced by men and women. [43]

  9. Why are some doctors hesitant to prescribe hormone ... - AOL

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    Hormone therapy is typically not recommended for anyone with a personal medical history of breast or uterine cancer, undiagnosed postmenopausal bleeding, active liver disease, heart attack, stroke ...