Medicare Patients Who See Female Physicians May Be Less Likely To Die Or Be Readmitted In Following Month Than Those Who See Male Physicians, Study Suggests.

reports the researchers reviewed the records of over 1.5 million Medicare patients who were admitted to hospitals for medical reasons between 2011 and 2015, and found that over that period only 11% of the patients treated by female physicians died within a month of being admitted, compared to 11.5% of the patients treated by male physicians. The researchers estimated that if all physicians performed as well as the female physicians reviewed in the study, then 32,000 lives would be saved each year. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-survival-womendoctors-idUSKBN1481W2