Did You Know Choosing Female Doctors Gives You a Better Chance of Survival?
Studies show your chances of complications or death are significantly lower if you’re cared for by a woman.
When I was 22 years old, a male doctor told me there was no point in checking for breast cancer. If I got cancer at that age, I would die anyway.
This was in Austria — a country with amazing free health care — after I told him my grandmother had died of breast cancer. Fortunately, the lump in my breast turned out to be just a fibroid.
Later in life, I had to have a hysterectomy because a male doctor failed to tell me about the severity of the fibroids I had developed.
I don’t know if my outcome would have been different if my doctors had been female, but a recent study has confirmed previous findings that female doctors create better outcomes and fewer complications.
Today, I choose female doctors over male doctors whenever possible.
Mainly because my personal experiences with male doctors haven’t been the best. But I’m not surprised that the study confirms my gut feeling.
Female doctors provide better care.
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