Whom to blame ?
After my clinical posting had started, slowly I got to visit every department. I noticed there were almost around no female surgeons and only one female general physician but in other departments there were equal number of both male and female doctors. I was confused why there are no any female surgeons, since then I started to observe. It’s not because surgery is so tough for female instead I observed females are equally capable or sometimes more than male. Me, being a medical student I didn’t feel my male friends are smarter or more hard working than us female. Then why no female surgeons in our hospital? This question made me really curious to know the reason. But, today I think I got my answer to this question. Me along with my group was posted to surgery department. We were about 6 boys and 8 girls. See, the majority was female. We were taking history of a male patient with hydrocele. After history we were asked to do examination of the patient but the patie...