This One Thing Makes Women More Likely to Die From a Heart Attack - No Female Doctors in The ER

[Judi Lynn]

This is crazy.

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS 12 AUG 2018

Women who have had a heart attack have a significantly higher survival rate when a female doctor treats them in the emergency room, a new study of nearly 582,000 cases shows.

In fact, in the sample, 1,500 fewer women would have died—women male doctors treated—if their survival rate was the same as women female physicians treated.

Further, women had a better survival rate with male doctors who have a lot of female colleagues in the ER—though they would still be better off with a female physician.

The findings parallel similar studies of gender differences in medical outcomes, but the difference here is the stakes, says Seth Carnahan, associate professor of strategy at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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