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Women doctors 'best for female heart patients'
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1800097115
Why do news media outlets and actual medical journals publish this nonsense?
1.) If the conclusion was that male cardiologists result in lower patient mortality than female cardiologists, the paper would be decried as sexist.
2.) If you did the same analysis and showed black cardiologists had worse outcomes than white or Asian cardiologists, it would be racist.
3.) There is NO valuable information to be gleamed from such research because none of this pertains to an actual individual physician.
4.) Is checking some imaginary virtue signaling box by the lead author Laura Huang that "women are equal and can do cool career stuff too! Yah girl power!"
5.) Anyone could find another patient data set and literally show the exact opposite "trend" in outcome..it's scientifically bogus at its core.
6.) Is so irritating and dumb I wasted 10 minutes reading the article and writing this...
What heck happened to medical literature? Is it just all garbage now??
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/07/31/1800097115
Why do news media outlets and actual medical journals publish this nonsense?
1.) If the conclusion was that male cardiologists result in lower patient mortality than female cardiologists, the paper would be decried as sexist.
2.) If you did the same analysis and showed black cardiologists had worse outcomes than white or Asian cardiologists, it would be racist.
3.) There is NO valuable information to be gleamed from such research because none of this pertains to an actual individual physician.
4.) Is checking some imaginary virtue signaling box by the lead author Laura Huang that "women are equal and can do cool career stuff too! Yah girl power!"
5.) Anyone could find another patient data set and literally show the exact opposite "trend" in outcome..it's scientifically bogus at its core.
6.) Is so irritating and dumb I wasted 10 minutes reading the article and writing this...
What heck happened to medical literature? Is it just all garbage now??
