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...specialty, and surgery is the most rigidly disciplined major branch of medicine. It requires more apprenticeship training than most other branches, and many senior man doctors do not want to "waste" the education on a woman who might later practice only part time for family reasons. Cardiovascular Surgeon Nina Braunwald of the University of California at San Diego, one of the few who made it, sees another reason: "Surgery is a closed field, and the male ego would like to keep it so." Because department heads in the surgical specialties would rather not take a chance on a woman...
...things are gradually changing, even in surgery. "When I started medical school in 1948," Nina Braunwald recalls, "a woman would think about surgery 116 times and probably decide against it. Today she'll think about it 100 times and feel that there is some possibility of success." Like most women in medicine, Dr. Braunwald finds that acceptance by male colleagues varies. "The more intelligent a male doctor is," she says, "the less he minds...