The future of surgery is increasingly in the hands of women. “They are more capable and more stubborn than men“Antonio Brescia, professor of general surgery at the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology of the Sapienza University of Rome, and president of the fifth edition of the ‘Digestive Surgery – surgeon between soul and robot’, which will take place in Rome from 2 to December 4. “In the coming years there will be more and more surgeons in Italy, I also see it in my business where out of 27 trainees 22 are women“.” There is Micaela Piccoli, a talented surgeon and director of the complex structure of general surgery, emergency and new technologies of the Aou of Modena – recalls Brescia – Or Cecilia Menna, of the Aou S.Andrea of Rome, who has performed complex thoracic surgery operations and performed the first trachea transplant in Italy “.
The congress is scheduled for Friday 3 December a session dedicated to women in health care, ‘Women’s leadership and healthcare: from talking about it to proposing solutions‘, which sees Micaela Piccoli as its moderator. But the event also brings the best international surgeons to the capital. “The ‘surgeon between soul and robot’ is the theme of this congress, which highlights how in the tragic moment of the pandemic technology has helped all of us to stay in touch, but also reminds us how for us the patient is at the center of care and of the NHS – highlights Brescia, director of the week-day surgery unit at the S.Andrea Polyclinic in Rome – When we use state-of-the-art technologies we do it thinking about the patient’s good. We will have American and Asian colleagues who will bring their experiences in many fields from oncological surgery of the stomach, esophagus, colorectal, liver and pancreas “.
The event also includes a session for young surgeons “who unfortunately are fewer and fewer”, warns Brescia, which raises an alarm on specialization. “I’m afraid that no one will want to be a surgeon anymore, I’m 67 and today I’ve been in the operating room all day – he remarks – between complaints and defensive medicine the work is becoming very difficult. Once surgery was the master of specializations, today it is no longer so many doctors do not want to hold the scalpel in their hand “.
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