Category : Women in the Medical Workplace

Question Do patient outcomes differ between those treated by male and female physicians? Findings In this cross-sectional study, we examined nationally representative data of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries and found that patients treated by...

New research estimates that if all physicians were female, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year. Salaries for female physicians average some $19,879—eight percent—lower than male physicians. At academic hospitals, male physicians receive...

It is hard for any physician to advance as a medical researcher. Competition for research funding is fierce; the rigors of publishing in prestigious medical journals are gargantuan. And women pursuing such careers face even bigger challenges, with...

“Do you like vagina?” A resident physician asked me that when I was a third-year medical student in New York two years ago. He took obvious pleasure in making me squirm. I had just started hospital rotations after two years in the classroom, and...

You’ll never guess what happened to me today. Hours after the National Day of Solidarity to Prevent Physician Suicide volunteer web page went live, I received an email stating that I am officially terminated from my psychiatry residency program.

In a new analysis of Medicare reimbursements, women physicians were reimbursed less than men across specialties