Two new studies suggest that female surgeons provide safe and more effective results for their patients.

<div class="block">Two new studies suggest that female surgeons provide safe and more effective results for their patients.</div>

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Studies: Better Patient Outcomes With Female Surgeons

And two new studies suggest female surgeons provide safer and more effective results for their patients. One study that followed more than a million patients in Canada for a year found that those treated by a female surgeon were less likely to experience death remission to the hospital or other major complications. Second study focusing on the removal of gallstones, which is a common procedure, found that female surgeons had better outcomes than male surgeons. A doctor who wrote an editorial about the studies for the journal Jama surgery cites attitudes towards risk taking ability to collaborate and being patient centered as possible reasons for the difference.