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Surgeon's Dilemma Solution


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The answer, of course, is that the surgeon is the boy’s mother. Although there are many women doctors — and many of them prominent specialists — our cultural stereotyping tells us that doctors are men and nurses are women. The story could have just as easily have been about a nurse attending a patient because of the large number of male nurses.

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