Female Doctors Outshine Male Doctors: Study Suggests They Are Better!

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There has often been a debate on Man Vs Woman based on their biological, social and emotional differences. From Art to Science traditionally every work culture, professional and social standing has been majorly dominated by males but fortunately this one-sided dynamics isn't true anymore.

According to NBC News, Patients under the treatment of female physicians are more likely to recover and survive. The Harvard School of Public Health estimates almost 32,000 lives being saved annually if the male doctors performed as well as the females

The study suggests that female doctors provide much better health care by having a patient-focussed communication. As compared to male physicians female doctors have longer visits and Patients find them more encouraging, reassuring and caring.

Interestingly both male and female physicians practice medicine differently. Usually woman doctors are a bit better at sticking to the evidence. Patients treated by them had lower 30 day mortality.

A published report in the Journal of the American Medical Association's JAMA Internal Medicine reveals that over the four year study only 11 percent of patients attended by female doctors died within a month of being admitted in hospital as compared to 11.5 percent treated by male doctors.

This 0.5 percent difference may look marginal but its very important considering it involves life. This difference becomes more significant in real life where this finding does not depend on a small percentage of chosen sample.

As reported by Washington Post, Vineet Arora, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, admired the research but was apprehensive of taking the finding on its face value. According to Arora these statistics may be a result of many other factors but the bottom line is that female doctors are as good as their male counterparts..

Considering their competency the female physicians deserve to be paid equally but often its not the case. Unfortunately the bias and discrimination continues by terming them less hard working and not as committed specially after having children.

Despite the research not being conclusive of the gender specific outcome. This mindset needs to change as time and again women have proved they are no less than a man if not better.