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Re:Elderly Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Thos... by ZeroGravitas on Monday December 19, 2016 @01:26PM (#13213642)
I thought that as more younger doctors are women, then perhaps younger doctors are better. I'm always a bit disappointed that science news doesn't dig that one level deeper. You'd hope they'd cover both the ideas we came up with in 5 seconds in the paper, but if they don't mention it in the story then you're left guessing.
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Re:Elderly Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Thos... by stevekemp on Monday December 19, 2016 @09:15PM (#13216838)
> perhaps younger doctors are better.

That's an interesting observation. On the one hand younger doctors have been more recently exposed to "current" ideas, research, and stuff. On the other hand younger doctors lack the experience to catch things that are unusual and often discussed as theoretical.

I'd be curious to see if there were research on this topic now!

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Re:Elderly Cared For By Female Doctors Fare Better Than Thos... by mattkrause on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @12:19PM (#13221786)
They did!

The paper reports that they included both physician age AND years in practice, along with a slew of other factors.

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