New Research Suggests That Doctors Affect A Person's Survival Rate

A new study proves that gender plays a huge role for patients to survive in a hospital. This has been quite a buzz online on December 20.

Based on a report by Denver Post, a patient is more likely to be discharged from the hospital if the doctor tending is a female. Male doctors are good but apparently, this study proves that women doctors handle it better than them.

Researchers based their findings using old patients who were confined in the hospital due to some common diseases. About 11.5 percent of patients died after being treated by a man, the death rate of patients treated by a female doctor was only 11 percent. The difference is not that big but it still means that one's chance of survival is high if the doctor is a woman.

This study also said that if male doctors would work the way the female ones do, then mortality rate could go up that 32,000 deaths annually could be prevented. Although this paper can prove number and statistics of the success rate that female doctors have over the years, it didn't say anything about the reason behind it. Just because female doctors are highly recommended for a patient's high survival rate, it doesn't mean that one should just completely avoid male doctors.

Meanwhile, although female doctors have this reputation of doing well with their jobs more than male doctors, one would be surprised that their salary and funding for researchers is actually 8 percent lower than what male doctors are receiving. The Atlantic pointed out that fact, which makes female doctors even more impressive and it shows that they are not just in it for the money but for the passion that they have to people.

The next time you get confined or rushed in a hospital, make sure that you choose a female doctor. Share this to your friends and family today.