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Want To Save 32,000 Lives Per Year? Get Male Doctors To Practice Like Women Docs
2016 Dec 20, 5:26am 8,668 views 29 comments
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The business model in U.S. Healthcare is to maim the patient and rape them into bankruptcy. Women just suck at doing their job, hence the poor results.
If you want to save lives, first thing you have to do is educate the populace that the Federal Government guidelines for nutrition cause harm, and replace with good info. Second, ban advertising for drugs on the television, so people aren't programmed to be hypochondriacs fiending for more harmful and wholly ineffective, drugs.
First, do no harm, is now First, get dat money
Dan8267
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2016 Dec 20, 7:39am
It turns out the patients treated by women had a 4 percent lower risk of dying prematurely and a 5 percent lower risk of being readmitted to a hospital within 30 days compared with the patients cared for by male doctors. In absolute terms, that means the mortality risk went from 11.5 percent among the patients of male doctors to about 11.1 percent among the patients of female doctors.
I'd have no problem preferring female doctors if it is true that my chances of dying were even slightly less with them. However, I have to be skeptical about all gender studies saying "women are better than men at X" because if there were any evidence or studies showing the opposite, that "men are better than women at X", such evidence and studies would be suppressed like child porn. As such, the mere lack of evidence that women are better than men at X implies a greater than 50% probability of the opposite. It's like a recurring game in which there are two doors, one has a million dollars for you behind it and the other one a lion. Most of the time when you pick the door with the million dollars, before entering it, the game show host says "game cancelled". If the game show host doesn't say "game cancelled", it's probably a lion.
And that's the problem with political correctness when it comes to science. It makes people doubt the truth even when the science is right.
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2016 Dec 20, 7:48am
the study can’t offer a clear explanation for this apparent female edge
Yeah, lets get them practice like women, except we have no fucking idea what exactly does that mean.
If FAILURES could pay cash,they would have the best medical care
they do at places like minute clinic because they don't want to wait 6 weeks for appt at primary care doc office.
How much medical care can one actually receive at a minute clinic/medexpress?
My closest one used to be a blockbuster, I'd wager there was more value add in renting movies than getting soaked for very minimal healthcare.
Maybe a good place to go for a quick permission slip if you need antibiotics or drugs, in this free market land of the free. Aside from that not sure what they even claim to provide , aside from an easy way to waste your time and money
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
They're trying to find the story.
The guys are trying to check a box that gets them paid fastest with the lowest risk of being sued.
So these female doctors in question are not required to use an EHR? Or do they actively make it a point not to bring electronic devices into the room while taking a history and physical on a patient?
How much medical care can one actually receive at a minute clinic/medexpress?
They do a fair amount. Not as comprehensive as the average primary doctor, particularly with regards to procedures but still, a fair amount
http://www.cvs.com/minuteclinic/insurance-and-billing/price-lists
I'd wager there was more value add in renting movies than getting soaked for very minimal healthcare
Pretty sure netflix and its predecessors killed the renting movies model; healthcare is something people have to step out of their houses to receive, in most cases. Moreover, healthcare delivery isn't subject to the same 'free market' forces that the movie rental business is subject to.
How much medical care can one actually receive at a minute clinic/medexpress
Them and other urgent care facilities, do explicitly state, that the care given in that environment is not a substitute for seeing your primary care doctor. The people who work there are all APRN (FNP-C).
aside from an easy way to waste your time and money
pretty affordable for what they offer; actually waiting for appointment with primary MD/DO for 6 weeks and then having to take half a day off from work is a bigger waste of time for those who have to work for a living.
Also, most of the people working at minute clinic are female; so naturally, that means you will get better care.
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Want to save 32,000 lives a year? Get male doctors to practice more like women.
Updated by Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Dec 19, 2016, 11:10am EST
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“Your chances of dying are lower if your doctor is a woman,” Harvard's Ashish Jha, one of the co-authors on the study and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, summed up. Markus Mainka/Shutterstock
Female physicians earn less than male doctors. And now it seems that they may actually deliver better health care for patients in certain situations.
In a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers from Harvard University wanted to explore whether the sex of the doctor matters when it comes to patient outcomes. A small body of studies has already shown that the gender of the doctor can influence the quality of care patients get, but so far there's been little research on what that means for mortality risk.
The researchers focused on elderly Medicare patients in hospitals from 2011 through 2014, looking at 30-day mortality data on more than 1.5 million hospitalizations. They also looked at about the same number of readmissions to hospitals within 30 days of discharge in the same time period. Their specific aim: to see whether the patients treated by women were more or less likely to die or be readmitted than those treated by men.
It turns out the patients treated by women had a 4 percent lower risk of dying prematurely and a 5 percent lower risk of being readmitted to a hospital within 30 days compared with the patients cared for by male doctors. In absolute terms, that means the mortality risk went from 11.5 percent among the patients of male doctors to about 11.1 percent among the patients of female doctors.
The gap in readmission rates was similar: 15 percent for female doctors, and 15.6 percent for male doctors.
Overall, the researchers deduced that the sex of the doctor seemed to have an influence on the risk of patient death. "Your chances of dying are lower if your doctor is a woman," Harvard's Ashish Jha, one of the co-authors on the study and director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, summed up.
The finding is particularly meaningful at the level of population health, Jha explained. "If male physicians achieved the same outcomes as female physicians do, we would save about 32,000 lives a year — and that's just in the Medicare population. That's about how many people die from motor vehicle accidents."
To understand what other factors (besides gender) may influence the different health outcomes, the researchers controlled for a number of doctor and patient variables. The patients of male and female doctors were similar, but men saw more patients on average and had more experience than their female peers. When the researchers controlled for these differences, however, female doctors still performed better.
There were a couple of important limitations to this study. First, it was observational research, which means it can only tell us about an association and not cause and effect. Second, there may be other variables the researchers didn't control for — differences in the socioeconomic status of the patients, for example — that explain their major finding.
So the study can't offer a clear explanation for this apparent female edge, but Jha thinks one clue may come from why he and his colleagues conducted this research in the first place. "There are about a dozen studies out there that suggest women seem to practice differently than male physicians," he said. "They practice in a more evidence-based manner, they stick more closely to clinical guidelines, they communicate more effectively with patients."
Only one other US study looked at the association between the sex of the doctor and patient mortality (this time, in a small cohort of outpatients), and it found gender didn't seem to make a difference. But other research on the quality of care patients get has consistently found that gender matters, and female doctors often have an edge on their male peers.
"I think it's those practice differences that probably explain the results we have," Jha added. "If I'm right on that, it's good news for those of us who are male doctors, because those are things we can learn."