While women make up the bulk of healthcare workers, female doctors only account for about a third of the U.S.’s physician workforce. About 37 percent of doctors in the U.S. were women as of 2021 ...

Hospitalized women are less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they are treated by female doctors, a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. In the study ...

The readmission rates after discharge were also lowest if the discharging doctor was female, as was her patient. This poses the question: Are women really better doctors? Although recent ...