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Are women better surgeons than men?

It is safer to be operated on by a woman than by a man. The statement is taken not from a feminist pamphlet, but from two studies recently published by independent teams, one in Canada and one in Sweden, in a journal. Jama surgery. Their conclusion may seem surprising. patients are less likely to die or suffer an adverse event when their surgeon is a woman. “I think this data should give me and my male colleagues pause.”comments Christopher Wallis, a surgeon and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and the first author of the publication. “Understanding and taking inspiration from the reasons for this difference will benefit patients.”

The scientist and his team looked at the rates of death, hospital readmissions and complications (ranging from severe infection to stroke) after 25 types of routine or complex surgical procedures in Canada. The records of nearly 1.2 million adults were operated on…

Source: Le Figaro

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