Female surgeons have better overall patient outcomes than male surgeons.
Departments with a significant percentage of female surgeons have better overall patient outcomes for all surgeons.
This is demonstrated in study after study after study.
Why? Because surgery is such a male-dominated field that a female surgeon has to be orders of magnitudes better than her male peers to be considered for the same job positions/research grants, etc.
And when you get enough female surgeons in a department, they start being able to influence decision-making to improve patient safety and procedure efficacy for the entire department.
But hospitals don’t like hiring female surgeons because they might do something inconvenient like needing time off to give birth to the next generation.
DEI in medicine doesn’t just ensure a genuinely merits-based hiring process, as opposed to a convenience-based one.
