Shyam Krishna

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No less remarkably rude is the behaviour of a surgeon remembered by Kerin Fielding, one of Australia’s few female orthopaedic surgeons. She recalls having had ‘many battles’ during her training, including one particular surgeon who refused to work with her. When Fielding met the same man years later he condescendingly enquired whether she had many patients, insultingly adding, ‘It’s just toes, fingers, I suppose.’9
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