Women in Surgery

In 1993, Claude Organ, MD, wrote an editorial in this journal on the subject of women in surgery. 1 In that editorial, he expressed the hope and expectation that in the near future there would be no need for such editorials. Over a decade later, I am as surprised and disappointed as Dr Organ to find that there remain women in surgery issues of sufficient gravity to warrant discussions, committees, lectures, research, and, yes, editorials.