The field of surgery has long been dominated by men, and still is today.
But two new studies show that if patients want safe, effective long-term results, picking a female surgeon might be key.
In both studies, female surgeons tended to be more methodical and take longer to complete a surgery compared to their male colleagues, the researchers noted. At one year post-surgery, 25% of the patients of male surgeons had experienced such an event, compared to just under 21% of those treated by women. When it came to deaths, 2.4% of patients who’d been operated on by a man were deceased by one year post-surgery, compared to 1.6% of those who'd had a female surgeon.
Again, the team found that female surgeons tended to spend more time on a surgery — an average 100 minutes for an elective procedure versus an average of 89 minutes for men.
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