Female doctors are paid 25% less than their male counterparts on average, according to the 2019 Medscape Physician Compensation Report, earning an estimated $2 million less over a 40-year career.

The results showed that 8.15% of women cared for by female doctors died within 30 days compared to the 8.38% who died under the care of male doctors.

In the U.S., research has shown women who have heart attacks are more likely to survive when treated by a female doctor. The same is true of elderly hospital patients.

Of those, 142,500 (female) and 97,500 (male) were treated by female doctors. A file photo of a patient being consulted by a female doctor.

The study compared hospitals in Canada where female surgeons and anesthesiologists made up more than 35% of the surgical teams to hospitals with a smaller share of female doctors. Higher levels of ...

Story at a glance More women than ever are studying and practicing medicine across the United States — but a considerable majority of the country’s working doctors are still men. In recent ...

Female doctors may be more attentive to patients, or better in other clinically relevant analytics. It may also be that there are other biases within the research data that point to better ...