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Patients treated by female surgeons have better outcomes
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2808894
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2808894
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4 Comments
Dadifer@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
In my experience, women are much less likely to be "cowboys". Alternatively, I've seen few women surgeons routinely attempt riskier corrective surgeries. It could be more about patient selection than skill.
LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch · 14 pts · 2y
In the study, 1,000,000 patients were treated by a male surgeon, and 100,000 treated by a female surgeon.
That's quite the discrepancy. Doesn't explain the results, but it does show that there were far more male surgeons than female. Which might mean that there is a selection bias somewhere in the process.
Lots more to study.
Cypher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
FediMan@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
10x difference isn't a problem. You have to look at ratios.
julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y
Having on one side the top 1,000,000 male surgeons and on the other side the top 100,000 female surgeons makes a difference, which is really hard to measure. Of course both are not the top surgeons, but it is just harder to find more of a kind. Imagine looking for 100,000,000 male surgeons, which is probably impossible given the education demographic in the US.