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Namechecked by Prof Anthony Glover in the @racsurgeons.bsky.social Academy of Surgical Educators webinar about surgical leadership! 🤗
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Join us in driving change! Your contributions of time, energy, or donations can make #SafeSurgery and #SurgicalCareForAll possible. Donate via paypal.me/GlobalSurger.... #GlobalSurgery #GlobalHealth #ilooklikeasurgeon #meded
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University to women: be more assertive Women: are more assertive University: there’s been a complaint
A keeper moment from @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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A straight ratcheted forcep, labelled 'Needle Gripper- Quilting' displayed amongst sewing machines and other quilting supplies.
The quilting section at Spotlight makes the 'are women suited to surgery?' discussion seem ludicrous. Quilters have been piecing fabric and driving needles through complex designs for centuries. Needle holders, right angle forceps, cutting blades- all here. #ILookLikeASurgeon #MedSky
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Diversity in surgery *and* surgical ergonomics for sustainable careers! Wonderful work from a superstar authorship team. 👏
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The Pregnant Surgeon: Welcoming the Advanced Ergonomics of Robotic Surgery
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She!
Thank you 🤗🙏
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Things I like about this paper from Dr Ekaterina Koelliker and team: the framing of Lack of Workplace Supports (LOWS), a refreshing change from the more usual 'let's fix women' lens.
The thing I don't like though: the 'both sexes' language. 🥴🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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'*Little* words, *little* statements make such a huge impact'. 👏
Fabulous podcast from @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Miss Maria Satchi, Miss Tharani Nitkunan and Miss Tina Rashid with advice for everyone (not just women).
#MedSky #GenderEquity #ILookLikeASurgeon
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'Advocating for equality across both sides of the globe with such small numbers of female surgeons results in a passionate but exhausted core of consultants.'
A thoughtful view of good and bad in gender equity in the UK and Australia, from Dr Ruth Varrall. #MedSky
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A Royal Australasian College of Surgeons-branded tote bag made of hessian with royal blue piping on the edges and handle.
An older male surgeon, spotting my bag at a student career event, said 'Oh! do you want to be a surgeon?' and tried to tell me why it's a great choice. 🤣
That's not a response I ever got back in the 90s. We *are* making progress on gender equity. #ILookLikeASurgeon 🤗
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A slide in Spanish with the title 'Diferentes Copas' (English translation 'different cups') and pictures of women wearing bras (and nothing else) in sizes A to D.
A lecture about the sizing of hip joint replacements making a totally unnecessary comparison to breast sizes. This is appalling sexism in surgery. 🤨
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#OperateWithRespect
(Credit: Dr Cris Ojeda-Thies)
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'Can we reimagine surgical culture? Not by lowering standards, but by widening the lens?'
Fabulous and wise words from Miss Rahi Karmarkar about how inclusion 'isn’t about being better or worse, but about being different in a way that strengthens the whole.'
👏👏👏 #ILookLikeASurgeon
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The pilot data is very convincing; almost all the women have been told they can't be a surgeon due to their gender, while none- none!- of the men have.
The link to a larger survey about #GenderBias by @uksurgeons.bsky.social is in the linked article- please contribute 🙏.
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Hits close to home, set in Canada
“ The attitude that obstetricians and gynecologists aren't real surgeons is prevalent a lot..”
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www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S000...
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Ms Laura Hamilton Consultant In Trauma & Orthopaedics Royal College Of Surgeons Of England Sexual Misconduct in Surgery: RCSEngland Response 3:15 PM - 3:35 PM Biography Ms Laura Hamilton was educated at Oxford University then St. Georges before becoming an Orthopaedic Registrar on the London Training Rotation. She completed her training with an RCSE Travelling Fellowship to Hong Kong and gained a Masters in Trauma & Orthopaedics. Laura in a Consultant Hand Surgeon at Brighton Major Trauma Centre, where she is the Clinical Lead for Hands. Laura mentors surgeons across the UK, and is a Personal Tutor at Brighton & Sussex Medical School. She has published and presented extensively about improving the culture in surgery, particularly orthopaedics. She is the founder of the Women in Orthopaedics (W.ORTH) group (Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky) and is an active member of multiple panels encouraging diversity in surgery. Laura sits on the T&O Selection Design Group, which runs National recruitment of ST3 Orthopaedic surgeons. Through her work on improving diversity, Laura was elected on to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She is Co-Chair of the Future Surgeons forum supporting medical students nationally, and is Deputy Lead for the RCSE Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery.
Another day, another talk shining a light on the murky corners in medicine… patients suffer when doctors don’t feel safe. I am proud of our strong response @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social This behaviour must stop now 💪🏽 #ILookLikeASurgeon #MeToo @nhsemployers.bsky.social #RCOG2025
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Skeleton staff Actually, in some areas of medicine sex truly does matter, and not for reasons of decorum. There is a reason 90 per cent of orthopaedic surgeons are male. It's to do with the sheer physicality of the job; the manipulation and manhandling of heavy bodies and joints. Orthopaedic surgeons are known in the industry as carpenters the way heart specialists refer to themselves as plumbers. In America, they get called jocks too. Big guys, bit sporty, working in a field that has relevance to them. Welsh rugby legend JPR Williams was an orthopaedic surgeon. It was said he spent his Saturdays drumming up trade and Monday morning cashing in. Yet when my lad needed his first hip operation, the leading specialist in the country turned out to be female, Sarah Muirhead-Allwood led the team that performed groundbreaking surgery on Sir Andy Murray and the Queen Mother, among others. There was a reason she could handle the load beyond expertise. Sarah was, until 1996, William; and the Queen Mum less reactionary than was thought.
I heard about @thetimes.com article from UK colleagues- but I was not prepared for this. A sexist dig at women, a stereotyping of orthopaedic surgeons as 'carpenters' and cardiothoracic surgeons as 'plumbers', and a final snark about transgender. Appalling.
#ILookLikeASurgeon 😠
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Terrible newspaper article
Lies saying only men are strong enough to be orthopods
BOA response to the article
Shocking article in the Times, perpetrating outdated stereotypes. Sports writer shows misplaced arrogance, rudely dismissing all women in Orthopaedics. BOA and BHS have responded. We need immediate apology and retraction @thetimes.com do better
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I'll take it! 🤣
The 17th century parody version of #ILookLikeASurgeon- with an élevatoire po(ur) la Te(s)te on his head (for lifting depressed skull fractures), miroir matrican ou uterin in his R hand (early hysteroscope) and bandages po(ur) rupture (hernia trusses) over his R arm.
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A hand holding a partially completed tapestry of an iris in shades of purple against a background of leaves in shades of green.
I'm not the only faculty member woolcrafting at this @racsurgeons.bsky.social CCrISP course! Another faculty member is doing this gorgeous Iris tapestry. Just imagine how beautifully they operate. 🤗❤️🧶
#DiversityAndInclusion
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My fashion looks from the @acstrauma.bsky.social #cot2025! It was cold but I think I looked cute. #ilooklikeasurgeon
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Super proud and overwhelmed to be chosen as a @facs.org @acstrauma.bsky.social Committee on Trauma future trauma leader. At the recent COT meeting I got to meet and hang with all of my co-trauma leaders! It’s going to be a great 15+ months! #ilooklikeasurgeon #ftl #cot2025
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Some of my work looks this week bec I was on the wards and could wear regular clothes. #ilooklikeasurgeon
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Ok! #AHPBA2025 has begun! Great to reconnect with our #HPBFamily and celebrate #HPBHeroines
Excited for a great 2025 program and honored to be planning #AHPBA2026
#Liver&PancreasSurg #ILookLikeASurgeon @eahpba.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social
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Diverse group of students, with loads of women and non white ethnic minorities. Photo in the college library.
@collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social look after every UK medical school - with ideas, resources and funding. Anyone who loves surgery should have the chance to do the best job in the world. These are the Presidents of the UK surgical societies - look at the next generation of surgeons 💪🏽 #ilooklikeasurgeon
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