Does It Matter if Your Doctor Is a Man or a Woman? – U.S News & World Report via Associated Press

Read article - Quotes Lisa Schwartz, professor of community and family medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; and H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; about a recent study of older patients hospitalized for common illnesses that found patients who got most of their care from women doctors were more likely to leave the hospital alive than those treated by men. Schwartz and Welch were not involved in the study. (Additional coverage: The Washington Post, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and more)