Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by majos on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:08PM
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Not necessarily. It could be that only good doctors treat female patients well, while all doctors treat male patients well. For example, if women patients are in some way harder cases while male patients are not, then treatment of women patients may separate good doctors from the rest.
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Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by wahern on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:26PM
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Alternatively, women patients speak differently to male doctors in ways that make it more difficult to make accurate and reliable diagnoses.
Educated professionals are certainly capable of exhibiting bias. But professionals are also more aware of the issue, and are even taught (formally and informally) compensating strategies. People off the street? Not so much....
Re:Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men Unless ER Doc ...
by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:28AM
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OR just that female doctors paid more attention to the fact that heart attack symptoms are different for women than for men. This may be as simple as it affecting them. If the male takes longer to recognise heart attack symptoms of females, it could easily produce worse results.
https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/heart-attack...