Friday 30 September 2022 08:05 PM It doesn't matter if your surgeon's a man or woman trends now
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The gender of a person's surgeon has no impact on their risk of suffering complications, a new study finds.
A Japanese research team found that male and female gastrointestinal surgeons had similar levels of deaths and surgery-related complications as one another.
Female surgeons included in the study were also more likely to be assigned high-risk patients and were less experienced than their male peers.
The findings suggest that fears some patients may have over the gender of their surgeon are unfounded despite stereotypes that suggest otherwise.
Researchers found that despite taking on higher risk patients and having less overall experience, female surgeons were just as likely to have a patient they operated on suffer severe complications or death than their male peers
Women make up over one-third of physicians in America, and are largely concentrated in fields related to children's or women's health (file photo)
Researchers from Japan Baptist Hospital, in Kyoto and the University of Tokyo, who published their findings earlier this year in BMJ, gathered data from the Japanese National Clinical Database from 2013 to 2017. The database includes more than 95 percent of surgeries performed in the East Asian nation.
In total, nearly 150,000 operations were analyzed - with 95 per cent having been led by a male physician.
Overall, 0.98 per cent of patients included in
