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Further worthy to note the culture inside surgery departments and residency programs, which seems to feed on exactly this sort of toxicity to measure the worthiness of applicants / residents / graduates. Young surgeon hopefuls should seriously consider the residency process before committing to the field; one of my wife's former co-residents, now early in surgery residency, is surprised by her own fertility challenges, for example. Anyone 'in the business' knows cases like this, and it's a good thing that suicides are national conversation.