The average amount of time it takes someone to become a physician is approximately 11 years, and for those pursuing further specialization, one can easily add a couple of years to that. The time certainly adds up by investing years in college, medical school, residency, and fellowship. By the time I will be an independently practicing cardiologist, I would have invested about 16 years into my training. That’s almost half …

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A recent publication in JAMA Internal Medicine clearly demonstrated that female physicians were able to provide better care when compared with their male counterparts. Researchers from Harvard University studied the relationship between physician sex and 30-day mortality and readmission rates of over 1.5 million Medicare patients between the year of 2011 and 2014. What they discovered was that female physicians had lower mortality and readmission rates …

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