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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Is There a Gap Between Men and Women Physicians?

Bob Bujena: What can referral patterns tell us about discrimination in medicine? He says there's a gap between what happens to men and women. When we don't support women physicians that means we're not supporting the patients who are being cared for by those women physicians, he adds. BobBujena: Do you have limbs, joints, bones, skin, a face? Then you could benefit from collagen because vital proteins is for everybody but me.

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