To reimagine the surgeon archetype, we need an arche-system: In response to Bakke et  al’s “Surgical archetype”

Bakke et  al have issued an urgent challenge that “who and what a surgeon is must be re-envisioned” to “change the narrative” to reflect “the growing diversity in our profession.”1 The authors charge that the “masculine contest culture” characteristic of the surgery milieu is antiquated, cou nterproductive, and damaging. They see the well-being of trainees, the aspirations of young surgeons, and the outcomes for surgical patients in the balance and make their case by relentlessly specifying the barriers and inequities still being experienced by female surgeons (while acknowledging that a “gender binary construct” is itself antiquated).

Source: Surgery - September 1, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Piroska K. Kopar, Kelly J. Vallar, Paul Kepper, Douglas E. Brown Source Type: research