Despite often achieving better patient outcomes, women primary care physicians (PCPs) face a significant and ongoing wage gap ...

Feldman as they shared an Uber to the Daily Beast’s Power 100—a luncheon for female leaders across industries. The women reconnected over fashion, crosswords, and childhood mantras that stay ...

A rumor that users circulated online in April 2025 claimed a video showed a Black female doctor denying care to a man because of his MAGA hat — a cap representing U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Encouraged by these doctors, she applied to medical school. Crumpler enrolled in 1860. “At the time, the New England Female Medical College had about 21 other women studying to become physicians ...

A female physician’s life is full of compassion and care. She gives it freely, carries its weight, and at times, struggles to find it for herself. In hospitals and clinics, she is a constant ...

Drugs seem to cause worse side effects if people think they are cheap. This finding could encourage doctors to explain to people that treatments can be effective and safe regardless of whether ...

Compensation rose about 3% on average for female physicians in the US in 2023. But they continue to earn less than their male counterparts, and that gender pay gap widens until women are in their 50s.

Among physicians, men on average earned $400,000 in 2023, about 29% more than their female counterparts, according to one new survey. Medscape published “A Gender Gap That Defies Explanation ...

Women Doctors have a 24% higher suicide risk than the general population, highlighting the need for improved mental health support for female doctors. Female physicians have seen a decrease in ...

In data from a host of different countries, patients seen by female doctors seem to do better than those seen by male ones. Why, though, remains mysterious. One of the first studies to examine the ...

Dear Annie: I wanted to share my response to the column in which the reader had called the doctor by her first name. I am a female physician myself and was surprised not only by the content of the ...

Last month, an article in The Annals of Internal Medicine reported significantly lower mortality rates for severely ill hospitalized patients treated by female physicians. The results were most ...