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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Do women make better doctors than men? Research suggests yes. The Economist Gendered medicine 7 August, 2024 | 770 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Many factors can influence whether a patient lives or dies. The quality of the drugs they receive, for example, the rigour with which their symptoms are monitored, or - more surprisingly - the gender of the attending physician. In data from a host of different countries, patients seen by female doctors seem to do better than those seen by male ones. Why, though, remains mysterious. One of the first studies to examine the issue was published in 2017 in the journal jama Internal Medicine by Yusuke Tsugawa of Harvard Medical School, and colleagues based in Boston. The authors analysed the medical records of around 1.5m older adults who had been hospitalised in America between 2011 and 2014. They found that patients whose primary treatment had been performed by a female doctor were roughl
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