The wage gap "is particularly unconscionable given the performance of women in terms of providing high quality care," he said. Chan School of Public Health and a lead author of the paper, said he hoped the study would spur constructive conversation.
While the study did not examine the reasons for this, prior studies have found female doctors are more likely than their male colleagues to spend more time with patients, communicate better, and follow clinical guidelines.ĭr Ashish Jha, a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. If male doctors achieved the same outcomes as female doctors, there would be 32,000 fewer annual deaths in the US, a new study has found. To put it another way, if male doctors achieved the same outcomes as female doctors, there would be 32,000 fewer annual deaths in the US, which is apparently comparable to the number of annual deaths from car accidents. Public health researchers at Harvard University found that elderly patients were 4 per cent less likely to die or 5 per cent less likely to be readmitted to hospital within 30 days if treated by female doctors rather than male. Women make better doctors, study suggestsĪny female doctors out there with a New Year resolution to ask for that pay rise? A new study that shows patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males may help your negotiation. Which is kind of amazing given the commonplace jokes about pregnant women's minds. However, the effects of pregnancy on the human brain are virtually unknown." The scans showed that grey matter loss remained - except in the hippocampus, where most volume had been restored (phew).Īs the paper's authors write: "Pregnancy involves radical hormone surges and biological adaptations. Two years later, 11 of the 25 mothers - those who had not become pregnant again - returned for MRI scans. The resulting consistent grey matter volume losses in the mothers, but not the other groups, was so clear that the computer algorithm could tell with 100 per cent accuracy which woman had been pregnant. Jo Fox explores if a new DIY intrauterine insemination device really gives women more freedom. The study also found that those women with the greatest reductions in grey-matter volume were, on the whole, the most strongly bonded with their babies. The hippocampus, a region of the brain associated with memory, also loses volume. This neural disk clean-up would then, as an example, allow new mothers to better identify and respond to their infant's needs or react to external threats.
Like the brain equivalent of defragging your computer, it appears grey matter shrinks during pregnancy as the neural networks become more specialised in areas involved in processing and responding to social signals. I'm definitely not the first woman to think she's lost her mind after having a baby, and thanks to the kind people at Nature Neuroscience, I can now rest assured that not only is this totally normal but, ultimately, helpful.Ī first-of-its-kind study has demonstrated that the architecture of a pregnant woman's brain changes during pregnancy and that this lasts for at least two years. This week, she asks: could so-called 'baby brain' actually be a helpful affliction? Is it time for women doctors to ask for a pay rise? And, when will Australia give three-parent babies the green light? The upside of 'baby brain' In her weekly column, Jo Fox rounds up the news and views that might have flown under your radar.
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