A Big Sister society?

摘要

When you imagine a surgeon, is that person white and male? The online campaign #ILookLikeASurgeon aims to tackle this stereotype, which campaigners say discourages women and ethnic minorities from entering and flourishing in surgery. Change of this sort takes time. Research published in this week's journal might help. Wallis and colleagues look at whether surgeons' sex affected how patients fared after surgery (p 60). They found that, in a range of procedures, patients treated by female surgeons had considerably lower 30 day mortality, length of stay, complications, and readmissions than patients of men.