A new study from the University of Toronto reveals that surgical teams with higher female representation yield better patient outcomes. Researchers found that hospitals with more than 35% female ...

Joanna Chikwe, chair of cardiac surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, told STAT that while the data suggest women may be less likely to have reoperations than men, the data do not ...

Historically, surgery has been a male-dominated specialty, but recent years have seen a rise in female surgeons. Women now make up a small but growing percentage of the plastic surgery workforce ...

North Texas medical center's first general surgery residents class is all female 03:14. FORT WORTH — Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth has welcomed its first class of ...

Female patient and male surgeon (n = 460) Female patient and female surgeon (n = 109) Overall, 28 patients died in the hospital. When stratified by groups, nine women (2.0%) treated by a male surgeon ...

In the past 12 months alone two examinations of roughly 1m surgery patients in Ontario; ... However the data are sliced, female doctors seem to do better. Chart: The Economist.