Women survive a heart attack more often when their doctor is female, study finds
Are women better doctors? And does rubbing elbows with women physicians help men become better clinicians? The answers have more to do with practice styles than gender.
Much like shoes or skinny jeans, heart attacks can fit women a little differently than men. Their symptoms don’t always look the same, and for a meshwork of reasons, physicians all too often fail to diagnose heart attacks in women with enough time to intervene.
The consequence: Women are more likely to die from heart attacks than men are. But, according to a new study, not if they’re treated by female doctors.
The , published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that female patients are two to three times more likely to survive a heart attack when
