A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine sheds light on how a physician’s gender might affect hospital outcomes differently for male and female patients. This large-scale study analyzed Medicare data from 2016 to 2019, examining medical outcomes of elderly patients hospitalized for various conditions. The study focused on two main outcomes: the likelihood of dying within 30 days of hospital admission and the likelihood of being readmitted within the same period. The analysis included over 776,000 patients and around 42,000 physicians. Notably, the results showed that female …