Do Women Make Better Doctors?

WayOutWestMom
Thu, 16 Aug 2018 00:39:12 +0000

Listening is certainly part of the reason, but if you read the Harvard study, you’ll see that women physicians are also more likely to follow evidence-based medical treatment recommendations than their male counterparts.

But based on what both of my doctor daughters have told me, if I ever think I’m having a heart attack, I want a female physician in the ER/cardiac emergency center. The heart attack symptoms in women are more generalized/vague in women than they are in men and are all too often dismissed as “just stress” by male physicians. (Plus I’ll put D1 on the phone–who will scorch their ears if they don’t do a EKG.)