There is a Chinese old saying that started in 19th century a woman is vulnerable, but being a mother makes one strong. This seems to make sense considering the status of women in society around a hundred years ago. None of us lived in that period, but we can imagine that woman who lived back then might not have been obligated to work or assume a profession. Rather, it seems more natural for them to do housework and teach their children at home
Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 2:05
Thank you for this very interesting post, Dr. Sannia. And when you say that when you stand there with a scalpel in your hand, you don't think as a woman or a man, you are just thinking as a surgeon and how best you can bring this patient back to normalcy by removing whatever anomaly it is in the body or setting whatever anomaly is there, right? So it is definitely a question worth thinking
So, yeah, I know that somebody like my father, who was so well educated and all of those things, but that was his first reaction. But then I must also add that when he came out after the consultation, he was a different band. And he did not once say that, I don't want to go back to this doctor because she's a woman or some such thing. She became his doctor, his eye doctor