Some research suggests that the answer is yes. But why?
Some interesting theories that have been teased out of the data: Patients are less deferential to female doctors, speaking up, interrupting, questioning, leading to better outcomes. Another theory: women doctors, on average, are better listeners than their male peers.
I have no idea what the answer is; I’ll leave it up to the researchers to run their regressions on the data. But I do know one thing: the best doctors are the doctors who listen to their patients and get the most information from them.

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