[HN Gopher] Lower mortality, hospital readmission rates if treat...
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       Lower mortality, hospital readmission rates if treated by female
       physicians
        
       Author : wjb3
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2024-04-23 22:27 UTC (33 minutes ago)
        
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       | throwawaysleep wrote:
       | Anecdotally, women care more about strangers than men do. Men
       | also go along with my amoral schemes much more than women do.
        
         | polka_haunts_us wrote:
         | Any amoral schemes you care to share with the class?
        
       | anonymous_union wrote:
       | i think we need to analyze male influence in all aspects of life
       | for negative externalities. especially in tech, largely male
       | dominated, seems to have inherent male flaws like deception (dark
       | patterns), jealousy (tracking), greed (ads).
        
         | 01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote:
         | I've definitely gotten jealous of other women. Though if my
         | personality leaked into my software it would be more like envy,
         | resentment, nostalgia, and FOMO. I wonder if that describes any
         | existing tech projects?
        
         | beastman82 wrote:
         | Are those male flaws?
        
       | j6zauas4gz wrote:
       | Makes sense. Female professionals generally have to work harder
       | to overcome gender biases that are still frustratingly prevalent
       | in society.
       | 
       | And I assume that those biases are more pronounced in older
       | populations which make up the bulk of healthcare patients, which
       | could make the above need to work harder even more pronounced,
       | maybe?
       | 
       | So many noisy data inputs here its hard to draw meaningful
       | conclusions
        
       | karencarits wrote:
       | I guess there might also be confounders, as the patients aren't
       | randomized. For example, if more senior consultants are males due
       | to a gender bias in earlier years, they may be involved in more
       | complicated cases, and so on. Some specialities are quite gender
       | biased, which may also impact the outcome
        
       | zmk5 wrote:
       | The difference is 0.2%. Honestly thought the difference would be
       | much higher. I'll need to read the actual paper to get whether
       | they found this statistically significant.
        
       | nickburns wrote:
       | [delayed]
        
       | bschmidt1 wrote:
       | Related: https://nypost.com/2017/03/22/staring-at-boobs-may-give-
       | a-bo...
       | 
       | /s
        
       | beaeglebeachh wrote:
       | Now do versus race as identified in med school admissions. I'm
       | curious if the variance in entry standards vs race poison the
       | well for certain professionals.
        
       | overrun11 wrote:
       | If the conclusion were the reverse then we wouldn't be reading
       | about it.
        
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