Emotionally detached and empathetic, elite, esoteric, and plagued by bureaucracy, robust, resilient, but suffering under unique emotional pressures. It is precisely these contradictions that have made the surgical stereotype so enduring.'
Brilliant, volatile, and almost invariably male, the surgical stereotype is a widespread and instantly recognisable figure. In Cold, hard steel, Agnes Arnold-Forster sets out to anatomise this stereotype, o...
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