Monday, December 19, 2016
Wow!
Wow! And before anyone starts blathering on about "My male physician is terrific," or "My dad was a doc and he helped many people," yes, yes, I'm sure that's true. These results are aggregated across many, many physicians. There are terrific men and women docs just like there mediocre physicians of both genders. But, ON AVERAGE, women produce slightly better results in their patients, ALL OTHER FACTORS CONSIDERED. To find something this significant (as in meaningfully, not statistically) based on something so fundamental is noteworthy. While I'm not a physician, I'm married to one and work with physicians every day, and I think this is likely tied to the macho image of "the decision-maker expert" that men in medicine seem to perceive they need to take on more so than women (again, IN GENERAL...not all men or women, blah blah blah). Getting beyond that would be helpful to all those who are dying unnecessarily. Or, rather, to those who might die in the future.
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
My dad remarked recently that more and more of his doctors are women. Good!
ReplyDeleteSince they did acknowledge that they don't really know the cause it could be as much in the patient's reaction to having a female doctor as anything the doctor does. Still good to know though.
ReplyDeleteIn other cases of "women as perform better than men" it's been pointed out that the act of discrimination and discouraging of women within a field may well mean that only the most qualified manage to reach or remain in practice.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to read this piece to see if that possiblity holds, but keep the concept in mind.
The first doctor I really remember was the pediatrician when I was small. She was a woman! which was somewhat scandalous in the long ago early 60s, but she was Russian, so that seemed to explain it satisfactorily to everyone. (And she was, possibly, the only pediatrician in that small cow town.)
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