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- Female physicians reduced 30-day mortality for women aged 65 and older in the United States.
- Eight point fifteen percent of women with female doctors died within 30 days.
- Eight point thirty-eight percent of women with male doctors died within 30 days.
- Researchers estimate closing the gender gap could save about 5,000 women’s lives each year.
- For male patients, physician gender showed no effect on death or readmission risk.
