Boston Doctors Show Off What a Surgeon Looks Like
A cover from The New Yorker is spreading like wildfire, thanks to a surgeon named Susan Pitt.
The illustrated cover, created by artist Malika Favre for the magazine’s Health, Medicine, and the Body issue, shows four female surgeons looking down at a patient on an operating table. After it hit newsstands on April 3, Pitt, an endocrine surgeon at the University of Wisconsin, called on fellow doctors to replicate the image, in an effort to show the country and the world that—even in a field dominated by white men—diversity abounds in the OR.
Pitt’s challenge didn’t go unanswered. Surgical teams have taken to Twitter en masse, posting their interpretations of the cover along with #NYerORCoverChallenge and #ILookLikeASurgeon.
The pose has been struck by physicians the world over, including some of our own here in Boston.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
BIDMC taking on the #NYerORcoverchallenge. #ILookLikeASurgeon pic.twitter.com/9qj8GUJzH5
— BIDMC (@BIDMChealth) April 11, 2017
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
#NYerORCoverChallenge: Accepted!!BWH general surgery chief residents #BeaGiftySuliatAnne(Melissa) #ILookLikeASurgeon #WomenInSurgery pic.twitter.com/q47oHclY7l
— Beatrice.DionigiMD (@dodo2105) April 13, 2017
Mass Eye and Ear
.@MassEyeAndEar surgeons take on the @NewYorker challenge! We are very proud. #NYerORCoverChallenge #ILookLikeASurgeon #ENT #Ophthalmology pic.twitter.com/EqFgKVly4e
— Mass. Eye and Ear (@MassEyeAndEar) April 13, 2017
This, indeed, is what a surgeon looks like.
