‘I imagined everyone seeing my bloody scrubs’: surgeons and their periods
With combined pain, heavy flow and hours-long operating stints, how do women surgeons handle their periods at work?
It is a question that has not received a lot of airtime.
But with more women entering the specialty, the taboo around the topic needs to end, says Brisbane surgeon Associate Professor Rhea Liang.
“We should be able to talk about these things. It is just a bodily function, but it is seen as too icky.”