50 health secrets every woman over 50 should know

A study of close to 582,000 heart attacks over 19 years found that women had a significantly higher survival rate when a female doctor treated them in the emergency room.

The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“You have highly trained experts with life or death on the line, and yet the gender match between the physician and the patient seems to matter a great deal,” says Seth Carnahan, associate professor of strategy at the Olin Business School of Washington University in St. Louis, in a news release.

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Source: RD.com