Having a female doctor leads to better health outcomes. Why aren’t we learning from them?
The Globe and Mail · Jillian Horton ·
It is not the case that every female physician is better than a male doctor. The key insight is that the average woman in medicine isn’t able to get by being quite as average
Jillian Horton is a physician and the author of We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing.
Imagine you are a hospital CEO. One day, your quality improvement team hands you some data. They’ve been studying outcomes in your hospital, and they’ve learned something peculiar: patients admitted to a particular room are less likely to be dead in 30 days than patients admitted to other rooms in the hospital. Other teams at other hospitals have found a similar pattern, hinting this mystery goes beyond your walls.
A new study suggests there is a metaphorical room like this in Canadian hospitals.
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