Dear world. It is 2021 and women can also become surgeons. Unsurprisingly lots of them are great surgeons. Can we please stop telling female students/trainees it's not for them based on assumptions. (Accept may not be for them based on aptitude/career aims)

Today for lunch Dilan has coated me in egg and spinach curry by sneezing. This is, of course, hilarious. I’m pretty sure his main concern in life is now working out how to sneeze on command, so he can do it again.

Today in #parenting Dilan just fed me a bit of his ricecake snack. Not sure if this is the development of social skills or more of a statement on the flavour of cardboard. In any case he’s very pleased with himself. #dadlife

Me finally meeting the baby my friend had during lockdown:

Delighted to hear our very own Euan Green has been appointed the new Training Programme Director (TPD) for Specialist Urology Trainees in the North West. 🤝 @SalfordRoyalNHS Laurence Clarke

BSoT

Delighted to have been appointed as the #urology TPD for the East sector of NHSE Workforce, Training and Education – NW Big shoes to fill but I’m looking forward to exciting times.

How an NHS IT glitch nearly led to me being escorted off site - twice - for being a pretend doctor: a Twitter novella

"Geriatric millennials" (born between 1980 and 1985) are best positioned to lead teams that will thrive in the hybrid workplace," writes Erica Dhawan. read.medium.com/HbZzE3k

Good morning what if practicing medicine was actually like step 1?

Couple find out 'gorgeous pâté' they were eating was actually cat food metro.co.uk/2021/05/24/eld… via Metro

Hanging out with the vascular surgeon

An excellent article on the challenges childcare in surgery in this month’s The Doctor Magazine well worth a read (if I do say so myself). Ever grateful for @SalfordRoyalNHS for facilitating my leave. #NCAUrology #parenting #dadlife bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…

Ahem… there’s a really good article on experiences of shared parental leave in here. Might be written by me. Shameless self promotion, I know.

Nice article on shared parental leave and balancing two surgical careers as parents by Euan Green Mark Bagnall PhD FRCS may be of interest publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.13…

Several factors are associated with delays in time to revascularization for patients with #CLTI, most notably the weekday of admission, which reflects how NHS services are organized. Thank you to ian chetter Jonathan Boyle and the whole NVR team for the support with this work.

‘It is accepted that female doctors take maternity leave so why shouldn’t male doctors with a family take similar time off?’ Euan Green shares his experience of shared parental leave in the latest issue of the Trainees’ Bulletin. Read in full: ow.ly/4xrY50G35Yd

Invited to speak about shared parental leave by UCL Women in Surgery Important messages to future #womeninsurgery from inspirational speakers. @NHS_HealthEdEng The Royal College of Surgeons of England there needs to be a look at why fertility and pregnancy problems are so common in surgical trainees and how to help.

Angela Jerath MD, MSc Ryo Ikesu Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD Allan Detsky MD PhD CM Justin B. Dimick Yusuke Tsugawa Raj Satkunasivam Natalie Coburn Final thought - 0.2% absolute risk reduction may seem like a really small amount. But what this means is that for every 500 patients treated by a female surgeon, one fewer patient dies. When you consider how many patients undergo surgery each year, I think this is HUGE!