Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female (2018)
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For example, perhaps better funded hospitals have more females on staff, and that drives the clinical outcomes.
Or maybe this relationship was one of thousands of possible relationships, as it is clear they have examined as much, and it's just appeared statistically significant by chance.
Supposedly men are twice as like to have a heat attack than men, but when women have great attacks the are generally more severe, with women being 50% more likely to have another within 6 months.
Maybe female doctors are left treating less severe cases, or maybe they work in hospitals better resources?
I mean, _one_ gender had to die more than the other ...
> The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating women. “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,” says Brad Greenwood, an author on the study and a data scientist at the University of Minnesota. If a heart attack patient is a woman and her emergency physician is a man, he says, her risk of death suddenly rises by about 12 percent.