Category : Women in the Medical Workplace
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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...
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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...
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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...
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“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...
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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.
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In a new analysis of Medicare reimbursements, women physicians were reimbursed less than men across specialties
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