Professor Vaibhav Modgil

Good question.

Firstly, thank you very much for having me.

Let's hope I live up to it.

I haven't heard the intro, but let's hope I live up to it.

To be honest, I always wanted to be a surgeon from a very early stage.

And like many things in life...

It was probably more being surrounded by people who I looked at and thought, I want to be a bit like you.

And most of them happened to be at that time when I was training, I was young urologists.

And then I think it was a case of once I'd done my general urological training.

I met people who were men's health, specifically men's sexual health surgeons and reproductive health surgeons.

And I got more and more drawn into that because, A, I don't think it's particularly well served.

But B, and I'm sure we'll come on to it in the goodness of time, I think there's a lot to be said about it.

the stigma that goes with it still, even in 2026.

So it was a combination of things really, but that's probably where it came from.

100% right.

And you've come on to two things there.

So number one, the difficulty that men have.

And number two, why is it that our female counterparts don't have the same difficulty?

I don't think we really have a complete answer for it.

It's multifactorial.