Could the gender of a doctor play a role in whether a patient gets better, faster? A new study out of the Harvard School of Public Health has determined it might. Researchers studied both mortality and hospital re-admission rates for a group of elderly patients and found that those treated by a woman doctor fared better. Adam talks to one of the authors of the study, Dr. Ashish Jha (@ashishjha), about the findings, as well as Dr. Laura Burke (@bidmchealth) of the Beth Israel Deaconess E.R.
