Female patients found to have 15% more chance of a bad outcome from surgery if the surgeon was a man than if the procedure was performed by a woman.
Women who are operated on by surgeons who are men are much more likely to die, experience complications and have to be readmitted to the hospital compared to when a woman performs the procure. In a study of 1.3 million patients, women are 15% more liable to suffer a bad outcome, and 32% more likely to die if a man performs the surgery.
The study found that men who had operations had the same outcomes regardless of whether their surgeon was a woman or a man. Women fared better with female surgeons. There were no gender differences in how surgery went for either men or women operated on by female surgeons.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/04/women-more-likely-die-operation-male-surgeon-study?s=09&fbclid=IwAR1LnZUJW--czK1wkpFoAwHF4DCgn-KVW_nYITZzT2KrRA8MSdwgrsvoXqk
