Surgeons navigating their pregnancies see a bleak picture getting a bit brighter
When a surgeon asked Sharona Ben-Haim during a 2008 interview for a neurosurgery residency program whether she planned to have children, she responded the only way she felt she could: a resounding no.
“I was very much trying to hide being a woman, just trying to fit in,” said Ben-Haim, who now directs the surgical epilepsy program at the University of California, San Diego.
