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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by Axsuul on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:08PM (#17702559)
That would only apply if we saw the same trend with female doctors treating male patients.

> 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,” says Brad Greenwood

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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by pseudalopex on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:25AM (#17703860)
The article mentions that women are more likely to present with "atypical" symptoms (which actually may be typical for women). Maybe almost all men present with "typical" symptoms or female doctors are more diligent about checking women for "atypical" symptoms.
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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ... by tedsanders on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:09AM (#17703805)
FYI, just because effect A is statistically distinguishable from zero and effect B is not statistically distinguishable from zero, that does not imply effect A is statistically distinguishable from effect B.

It could still be the case that female doctors are better overall, even if it was only distinguishable from zero in a single branch.

(I looked at paper myself but am not confident I can interpret it correctly.)

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