The second implantation, also in a male patient, was performed at Jewish Hospital in August. This third North American implantation is the first to involve a female patient.

While it’s clear that male physicians are better at taking care of men with heart attacks than women, “it’s harder to tell if female physicians have no such gender disparity because their ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dr. Laura Scrimgeour had never met a female cardiothoracic surgeon until she met Dr. Amy Fiedler. While more than 50 percent of all medical school students are women, the gender ...

Greenwood B, Carnahan S, Huang L. Patient­—physician gender concordance and increased mortality among female heart attack patients. PNAS. 2018;115 (34):8569-8574. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800097115.