Are Women Really Better Doctors Than Men?

F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE
6 min readApr 23, 2024

A new study suggests you’re better off if your hospital physician is female.

Dr. Niamey Wilson is definitely a better doctor than Dr. Perry Wilson

It’s a battle of the sexes today as we dive into a paper that made me say “wow, what an interesting study” and also “boy am I glad I didn’t do that study”. And that’s because studies like this are always somewhat fraught — they say something about medicine but also…

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F. Perry Wilson, MD MSCE

Medicine, science, statistics. Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at Yale. New book “How Medicine Works and When it Doesn’t” available now.