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Women in Surgery
The Same, Yet Different
Jo Buyske, MD
Arch Surg. 2005;140:241-244.
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INTRODUCTION
In 1993, Claude Organ, MD, wrote an editorial in this journal on the subject of women in surgery.1 In that editorial, he expressed the hope and expectation that in the near future there would be no need for such editorials. Over a decade later, I am as surprised and disappointed as Dr Organ to find that there remain "women in surgery" issues of sufficient gravity to warrant discussions, committees, lectures, research, and, yes, editorials.
The number of women at all levels of surgery and presurgery is measured, remeasured, and studied from every direction. This has an odd, somewhat isolating effect on those of us under scrutiny. Most women surgeons of my era, and certainly those before, have spent our careers being as sexually invisible as possible while attending to the business of learning and practicing surgery. The goal was to be accepted as a surgeon, not a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
THE CHILDBEARING ISSUES
THE AMORPHOUS ISSUES
ISSUES OF WORK DISTRIBUTION
HIDDEN FACTS AROUND CLINICAL PRACTICE
CHANGES IN PROCESS
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
THE CONTINUUM OF CHANGE
THE FUTURE IS NOW
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia.
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