Being treated by a female physician can reduce the risk of death and hospital readmission, a new study suggests. Researchers also observed that women derived an even greater benefit of receiving treatments from female physicians, at least in the inpatient setting. The study of more than 700,000 Medicare beneficiaries, led by the University of Tokyo in Japan, was published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine. Unadjusted mortality was 8.42% for ...