“When will I see the doctor?” Most female doctors have been asked this question many times. It feels like a slight — a failure to recognize the struggle it took to get to where they are, a fight that ...

Dr. Shikha Jain wants women to thrive in the medical field. Jain is the founder of Women in Medicine, a Chicago-based nonprofit helping women advance to leadership positions as medical professionals ...

More women than ever are studying and practicing medicine across the United States — but a considerable majority of the country’s working doctors are still men. In recent years, female medical ...

Many factors can influence whether a patient lives or dies. The quality of the drugs they receive, for example, the rigour with which their symptoms are monitored, or—more surprisingly—the gender of ...

Female physicians may be better than male physicians at establishing a good rapport with their patients. (Getty Images) Are patients in better hands if they’re being treated by female physicians? Yes, ...

Whether your doctor is a man or woman could be a matter of life or death, a new study suggests. A study of more than 580,000 heart patients admitted over two decades to emergency rooms in Florida ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

A rumor that users circulated online in April 2025 claimed a video showed a Black female doctor denying care to a man because of his MAGA hat — a cap representing U.S. President Donald Trump's "Make ...

When I was 22 years old, a male doctor told me there was no point in checking for breast cancer. If I got cancer at that age, I would die anyway. This was in Austria — a country with amazing free ...

A study of almost 800,000 hospitalized Medicare recipients found that patients were less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they were treated by a female doctor. While the study didn’t ...