Study: Women are more likely to die after men’s surgery

 

Researchers from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and the University of Toronto in Canada studied the potential for death or serious complications depending on the gender of the surgeon performing the surgery.

It found that women were 15% more likely to die or suffer severe consequences if they had surgery by a man. Moreover, in the opposite case, when a woman performs men’s surgery, there is no increased risk of death or other complications.

There is no such risk if a male surgeon performs surgery on a patient of the same sex. So far, researchers have not found the exact cause of this phenomenon.

The scientists based their work on data from 180,000 surgeries, both planned and emergency, performed in Canada from November 2020 to March 2021.