Popular Science: When surgery was a public spectacle

From my Archive collection on Pop Sci

Operating theater is dead. Or is it?

Set aside all the demanding years of medical school and residency—the grueling shifts, endless exams, and mountains of debt—to be a surgeon requires unique personality traits. Chief among them is “extraversion,” according to a 2022 report published in The Surgeon, a medical journal...

When surgery was a public spectacle

Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor.