Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - January 23, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 9.63 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?
In early January several newspapers ran article claiming that ‘women are 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon. If true, this is a terrifying figure but is all as it seems? We dig into the data to find out whether women should really be worried about having a male surgeon.