Sadly, men and women are sometimes treated differently, even when they have similar APACHE scores. There are quite a lot of studies dealing with this issue. Of course, there are numerous logical reasons why men and women are sometimes treated differently. Ignoring all the ethical issues for a moment, medical malpractice would only be the case, if there were differences in outcome. And often that is not the case, thankfully. It remains to be a very sensitive, complex and current topic.
