During the French-Mexican War, a poorly supplied and outnumbered Mexican army under General Ignacio Zaragoza defeats a French army attempting to capture Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico.
At least 30% to 50% of graduating general surgeons take fellowships and ultimately narrow the scope of their practices. These surgeons do not perform all the procedures that the average general surgeon does. Almost 50% of medical school graduates are women, and up to 40% of surgical residents are women as well. Here is âthe elephant in the roomâ that no one wants to talk about.
Like most surgery, plastic surgery is very a male-dominated field. About half of medical students are women, but you don't see them going into surgery as often. I did a fellowship in the beginning of my career where they took on one person a year, and I was the third woman out of 37 years to do this fellowship.