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Every time a little girl or a young female student has asked me if she can be a surgeon, I wonder if I\u2019m about to sell her a lie. The answer, of course, is yes, she can \u2014 I\u2019m living proof. After all, I finished my specialty training to become one of the minuscule 5 percent of heart and lung surgeons who are female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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