Women in Surgery

Women in Surgery ... Long back, during my academic tenure, I had an opportunity of visiting a renowned centre of the country, to observe TMJ and Orthognathic work.

During my ten days stay, of course the surgeries were awesome, great, performed by talented hardworking male colleagues mostly, infrastructure was also great — everything was perfect ... except there was no common changing room for surgeons. Women surgeons were expected to use the changing room for nursing personnel. The role for women in this system was either of anaesthesiologist, gynecologist or nursing staff.

This has been a common scenario for a very long time. In my earlier tenures, while working closely with the ENT department, most of the chief surgeons were men. While working we are just one team, we are not men or women, but as young lads watched us, they subconsciously perceived the division of roles as per gender.

Thankfully times have changed during my life time and also for me. Now I work with a complete female team where from Chief surgeon (which is myself) to my ENT colleague (Dr Sai Spoorti) and Anaesthesiologist (Dr Neena Singh) along with our surgical nursing staff, we are all women. And we just killed it.

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