Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein

I mean, I know it now and the number is growing, but there's a very interesting study that looked at the rate at which orthopedic surgery will get to parity in terms of sex in the field.

And it's well over 200 years before we will be at parity.

At the current rate of attrition.

I think for a lot of people, athletics is a gateway to orthopedics.

So student athletes are often very aware of

nutrition, musculoskeletal health, often have an injury here or there, often have a chance encounter with someone in the field of orthopedics who then, you know, it just gets you thinking about it.

And when I originally went to medical school, I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician, actually, because I love children.

Same.

Same.

And I did one block and it was just like not for me.

It was either.

I mean, I adore our pediatricians that our children have had over the years and they're amazing, but I couldn't do it because for me it was like either boring or very sad.

And I just it was not for me.

And I wanted to be in the operating room.

Doing surgery, I really like taking care of people in a way that I can acutely make them better.

You know, they have an acute injury and I can solve it.

And then I gravitated to sports medicine, which is, again, that is something that a lot of former athletes do.

Just sort of an area of interest for many people who have that background.

You know, I had so many teammates that had, like, an ACL tear.

I had multiple teammates who had Achilles ruptures over the years, which are... Those are common things that happen in that sport.