Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. ——Roger Crawford
你眼中的女外科医生是什么样的，是这样？
还是这样？
下面请看话题：
Some people think that female medical students are not suitable to be a surgeon. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
写作思路
一般人认为女生不适合做外科医生：
1. 女生体力不行，长期劳累容易内分泌失调
2. 在生理期不适合对他人做手术？？
3. 患者觉得男外科大夫更靠谱
4. 找工作时没有竞争力，性别歧视很严重
5. 临床任务太繁重，无法兼顾家庭
反对者认为：
1. 女大夫做手术更细心，脾气好，能很好的与团队成员（麻醉，器械护士）打好关系。
2. 在术后对病人观察更细致，态度更温和，患者术后死亡率更低
3. 对于女性本身，可以培养独立性，更从容的面对生死。
4. 对于一些隐私部位手术或检查（乳腺手术，妇科手术），患者更希望女性医生来操作。
5. 提高女性的家庭和社会地位，促进男女平等
6. 额。实在编不出来了。。
下面是我写的一个版本，包含我的个人意见，仅供参考。
In recent years, a heated debate has been ignited towards whether being a surgeon is a sensible life choice for female medical students. Although most people, including those working in medical institutions, hold the view that female surgeons could hardly perform better than their male counterparts. While I would definitely cast a doubt on this point.
Opponients think that female surgeons are often faced with formidable tasks in clinics, which easily overwhelm them, leaving them in a state of out of breath. Consequently, they could barely keep a balance between their work and family and are frequently susceptible to endocrinological disfunction. In addition, some patients would prefer it if their surgery is operated by male surgeons, as these patients believe that the male ones are more trustworthy and of higher sense of responsibility. Last but not least, since most employers perfer to recruit male surgeons for their higher levels of productivity, gender discrimination would place an artificial limits on female students' access to working as a surgeon.
At first sight, what the opponients care about seems reasonable. While I would counter that some female students, if not many, should be encouraged to choose a surgeon as their life career. It is a fair bet that the laborious tasks in large hospitals douse their fervour of surgery, but it would be rash to bet against their qualifications for a surgeon. It should be noted that the surgeon is a multifacetedcareer where they are not only required to perform
the operation, but also responsible for making important
decisions about the patient's safety and welfare before the operation, and providing the patient with postoperative
surgical care and treatment to alleviate suffering. Granted that female doctors are more prudent, careful and sensible than their male counterparts, petients would get better outcome if they were treated by female doctors, which has already been documented in JAMA Intern Med. <1> Interestingly, it is also well documented that patients treated by female surgeons had a small but statistically
significant decrease in 30 day mortality and similar surgical outcomes
(length of stay, complications, and readmission), compared with those
treated by male surgeons <2>. Taking these studies into consideration, female surgeons could be as eligible as male surgeons, if not better. From the patients' view, female surgeons are more than welcome when it comes to some physical examinations and surgery related to personal privacy. On the other hand, from the surgeons' point, female doctors could develop a sense of independence. What's more, since the surgeon is a special kind of job that can always earn respects from their friends and families, being a surgeon can help women to increase their status in a family, to say the least, and promote the sexual equality in the whole society, to say the most.
In conclusion, being a surgeon does have advantages and drawbacks for female medical students. They should weigh up the pros and cons before making the choice.
参考文献：
<1>Tsugawa Y, Jena AB, Figueroa JF, Orav EJ, Blumenthal DM, Jha AK. Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs Female Physicians. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(2):206–213. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.7875
<2>
Comparison of postoperative outcomes among patients treated by male and female surgeons: a population based matched cohort study
如有不足之处，欢迎指出~
下期话题：研究生待遇
Some postgraduates think that the government should provide more money for their living allowance. To what extent do agree or disagree?
如果你有觉得不错的关于医学的话题，请发给我。另外欢迎写作投稿，我会尽力修改~
友情链接
