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can the inverse be implied? Men die more from heart attacks than women unless the ER doc is Male. I mean, _one_ gender had to die more than the other ...

• AzN1337c0d3r 6y ago
  From TFA: > The researchers divided 500,000-plus cases into four categories: male doctors treating men; male doctors treating women; female doctors treating men; and female doctors treating women. “All of those are statistically indistinguishable except for male doctor–female patient,” says Brad Greenwood, an author on the study and a data scientist at the University of Minnesota. If a heart attack patient is a woman and her emergency physician is a man, he says, her risk of death suddenly rises by about 12 percent.