Women more likely to survive heart attack if ER physician is female

Women who show up in the emergency room with a heart attack are less likely to die if they are treated by a female physician rather than a male, a new study finds. Researchers scrutinizing data from nearly 582,000 heart attack patients found that women treated by male doctors were 1.52 percent less likely to survive than men treated by female doctors, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.