To live a long and healthy life, there are important criteria that all patients must take into account. In his work, Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa and his group of scientific researchers looked into the question. We tell you everything.
In view of the mortality rate increasing in hospitals, researchers from the University of California in the United States studied approximately 800,000 claims to the American health insurance service Medicare. For the data reliability final, for 30 days, they recorded the number of deaths that occurred after a consultation. THE results of their studies demonstrate that the choice of treating physician can have an impact on the success of treatment. We tell you everything.
The main criterion to be taken into account by patients
Which doctor to choose when you are sick?
To respond to the rising death rate around the world, students at the University of California in the United States conducted a careful investigation. The conclusions of this work were published in the American journal Annals of Internal Medicine. According to this study, a patient cared for and followed by a female doctor is more likely to live a long and healthy life than if he is under the care of a male doctor.
A study based on serious data
To provide more credibility to their research, these student researchers collected patient claims between 2016 and 2019 from Medicare health insurance. It appears that 8.15% patients treated by female doctors die after consultation, while 8.38% of patients die after consulting a male doctor. In case of readmission of patients in hospitals, the percentage is also similar. Male doctors record more patient returns than their female colleagues.
The possibility of saving more human lives
The conclusion of this study indicates that it is possible to save 5,000 lives every year if the patients are followed by women. We wonder if this is one of the reasons why there are more centenarians in France. More objectively, numerous hypotheses justify this assertion. First of all, female doctors communicate a lot with the patients they follow, which leads the patients to give more details about the illness that is gnawing at them. Support is therefore faster, as stated by the health magazine Doctissimo.
Patients confide more in female doctors
Researchers also note the fact that patients are more comfortable with female doctors. Furthermore, certain diseases are caused by stressful circumstances of everyday life or by a poor diet which can increase the level of cholesterol in the blood. Giving sensitive details to your doctor helps you target evil much more easily.
A study that creates controversy within the medical profession
A study that tramples on the foundations of the code of medical ethics
The publication of the results of this study created various controversies within the medical profession. For Dr Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor, such statements will accentuate the discrimination rate in medical cells. He recalls that according to the Code of Ethics, a doctor must treat any patient, regardless of their skin color, origin or gender.
A study which accentuates discrimination in hospitals
According to critics of this study, to avoid medical discriminationwe must favor the trust relationship that exists between the patient and the doctor. Skin or gender issues should not guide patients seeking appropriate treatment. In any case, living in good health is not impossible and to achieve this, everyone has the free choice to go to the doctor they need.
