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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.
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 ...
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.
Female patients have also been considered more demanding patients, and are considered to be a greater burden than male patients. [44] One observer has stated that, "different forms of female suffering are minimized, mocked, coaxed into silence." [2] In the medical community, women are perceived as having to "prove they are as sick as male ...
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A lawsuit brought by surgeon Dr. Deborah Keller highlights gender disparities and workplace discrimination in medicine.
The history of intersex surgery is intertwined with the development of the specialities of pediatric surgery, pediatric urology, and pediatric endocrinology, with our increasingly refined understanding of sexual differentiation, with the development of political advocacy groups united by a human qualified analysis, and in the last decade by doubts as to efficacy, and controversy over when and ...
The suicide mortality rate is about the same among male and female doctors, [2] and significantly higher than the general population. [3] [citation needed] Female physicians are at higher risk of attempting suicide than men, [2] [4] showing rates over 250% higher among women and about 70% higher among men versus the general population. In the ...