{"id":1988,"date":"2018-08-17T22:21:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2018-08-17T22:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:21:47","slug":"women-die-more-from-heart-attacks-than-men-unless-the-er-doc-is-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men\u2014Unless the ER Doc Is Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"t_article-subtitle\">Scientific American\u00a0 By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/angus-chen\/\">Angus Chen<\/a> on August 6, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"t_article-subtitle\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.scientificamerican.com\/sciam\/cache\/file\/F3B69ABC-9BED-4071-A4F0ADF93F99C371.jpg?w=590&amp;h=393&amp;2067BCB3-363D-439D-9EDEE0D4963D8BDA\" alt=\"Women Die More from Heart Attacks Than Men&amp;mdash;Unless the ER Doc Is Female\" width=\"452\" height=\"284\" \/><\/picture><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-progress\" data-behavior=\"article_progress\">\n<div class=\"article-grid-outer container \">\n<div class=\"article-grid\">\n<section class=\"article-grid__main\">\n<figure id=\"image-1\" class=\"article-media \"><figcaption class=\"article-media__caption t_caption\"><i>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/license\/529069189\">Getty Images<\/a><\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"aside-banner large-up-hide\">\n<div id=\"dfp-right-article-mobile\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"aside-banner__label\">Women make up a mere quarter of emergency doctors in the U.S., according to data from the American Medical Association. This statistic does not signal well to gender equality in medicine or young women considering the specialty\u2014and it may have even darker implications for patients. A new study suggests female heart attack patients may be at a higher risk of mortality in the emergency room if they see a male physician rather than a female one, giving greater urgency to diversity initiatives in medicine.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/women-die-more-from-heart-attacks-than-men-mdash-unless-the-er-doc-is-female\/\"> Read more<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American\u00a0 By Angus Chen on August 6, 2018 Credit: Getty Images Women make up a mere quarter of emergency doctors in the U.S., according to data from the American <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1988\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[756,506,755,480],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-american-heart-association","tag-emergency-room","tag-heart-attacks","tag-women-mortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}