Or perhaps half a handful. While medicine is now filled with women, female surgeons remain scarce. Just over 10% of female physicians enter surgical specialties, and under 25% of all surgeons are ...

Now a consultant surgeon at one of the busiest major trauma units in England, Elena Theophilidou has spoken of her successful career, as well as the challenges she has faced as a female doctor ...

Hospital managers today promised to review every single operation carried out by a pioneering woman surgeon who has been suspended following complaints about her work. Consultant surgeon Briony ...

A new survey found that female NHS staff are being sexually abused ... The study, published in the British Journal of Surgery (BJS), looked at unprofessional sexual behaviour in the past five ...

She asked no compensation for her work and received none. It was during this period that she adopted the bloomer costume, which was the first step toward her investiture in men’s garments… Secretary ...

A group of female surgeons are heading up a new initiative to stop them being mistaken for non-surgical staff. To mark International Women's Day they have produced personalised theatre scrub caps ...

Life is a ride for Dr Igor Banzic, who has set out on a three-week solo motorcycle trip around Australia’s coastline in honour of the country’s first female surgeon. Read the details.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Dr. Theresa Pazionis, a spine surgeon at Temple University Hospital, has been ahead of the curve for decades. "I am the first and only female spine surgeon ever at Temple ...