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Treatment from female doctors leads to lower death rates, study finds – National

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Women have better survival rates and lower hospital readmission rates when treated by female physicians, a new study found. The observational study published Tuesday in Annals of Internal Medicine found a contrast in mortality rates depending on the gender of the treating physician in the United States. Among women treated by female physicians, 8.15 per … Read more

South Korea’s Yoon vows not to back down in doctors’ strike

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Officials say they want to raise the yearly medical school cap by 2,000 from the current 3,058 to create more doctors to deal with the country’s rapidly ageing population. South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. Photo: dpa Doctors counter that schools can’t handle such an abrupt increase in students and that it would eventually hurt the … Read more