Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc Is Female

Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by karmakaze on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:21PM (#17701878)

TL;DR

  The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories:
  male doctors treating men;
  male doctors treating women;
  female doctors treating men;
  and female doctors treating women.
  
  “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,”

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by PurpleBoxDragon on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:35PM (#17701971)

There was more than that. There was the match and the non-match division, and there was the case where they couldn't determine the gender of the Physician. Also, some of the data doesn't look exactly indistinguishable.

Look at Fig.S2 here http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/suppl/2018/07/31/1800097115...

It looks like male and female doctors result in the same probability curve for female patients, but male doctors result in a higher probability curve for male patients.

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