M umbai’s female surge ons, a minority in me dicine, have a major reason to cheer as they read and forward a message on Wh-atsApp about two new global studies that statistically prove female surgeons have better outcomes than their male cou-nterparts. The studies, one from the US and Canada and another from Sweden, mined information of over a million patients who underwent vari-ous surgeries over the last decade to conclude that those treated by a female surgeon were less likely to experience death, hospital readmission or major complication.
The studies are published in ‘JAMA Network’, an in-dexed journal brought out by American Medical Associ-ation. “It is heartening to see such evidence,” said trans-plant surgeon Dr Vatsala Triv-edi, who kickstarted the city’s
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