Doctor’s Gender Affects Diagnosis Of Heart Disease
Twice as many women as men ages 45 to 64 have undetected or “silent” myocardial infarctions, suggesting a general diagnosis problem; however, Warwick University Medical School researchers say doctor’s gender may hinder early diagnosis of heart disease in women.
This is sort of interesting. The doctors gender affects the diagnosis of heart disease. And which sex had the “quicker hand” to diagnosing coronary disease? If you guessed the female physicians then you are correct, but only towards males. The female doctors showed a clear bias in favor of male patients when considering age as a diagnostic factor, opposed to their male counterparts.
So I guess this would mean on the other hand if you have a female doctor and you are a women, then you have more of a chance of having a “silent” heart attack or undiagnosed heart disease? The study was indeed very small, only 100 or so clinicians. I will be interested to see if they do a larger study on this since there are so many women in medicine currently. I will keep my eye out.
via Science Daily
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