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Women who had surgery performed by a male surgeon were more likely to have adverse outcomes than women operated on by female doctors, according to a study published Dec. 8 in peer-reviewed medical ...

Dr. Wallis said that after the surgery, too, doctors may treat men and women patients differently. “We know that women’s pain is not given as much credence as men’s pain,” he said.

Although recent, these are not novel findings. For example, last year, JAMA Surgery published an article on differences in outcome s for surgery patients when treated by male or female doctors.

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She said medical school was the first time she encountered Black physicians in any field. Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow poses at Cook Children''s Pediatric Surgery Center in Prosper, Texas.

For women, the possibility of dying after brain or vascular surgery with a female doctor is around 0.9%, and it goes up to just 1.2% with a male surgeon.