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Sabine Ernst, HRC 2019 –  Do patients really care whether they are seen by male or female HCPs?

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Published Online: Oct 30th 2019

We met with Sabine Ernst (A-A Executive Committee Member), who talked about her career as an electrophysiologist and shared her key points from the debate session “Do patients really care whether they are seen by male or female healthcare professionals?”

Speaker’s Disclosures: Sabine Ernst has nothing to declare in relation to this video interview.

Questions:
1. Why I went into arrhythmia care – an electrophysiologist’s perspective (0:08)
2. Do patients really care whether they are seen by male or female healthcare professionals? Does the care provided by males differ from that delivered by females in the care of arrhythmia patients? (2:14)

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Filmed at the Heart Rhythm Congress (HRC) 2019 in Birmingham, UK, October 2019 in partnership with Arrhythmia Alliance.

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