Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Israel’s first Arab breast surgeon has gift for shattering glass ceiling

Impressive! An Arab-Israeli trailblazer!

"... The 40-year-old mother of two, raised in a small Arab village outside Acre, has just been appointed the director of the Breast Surgery Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
She is the first Arab breast surgeon in the country and the only oncoplastic breast surgeon in Israel’s public health system who performs both the resection and the reconstruction for breast cancer patients. ...
Khatib said. “I ask every girl, no matter where she grew up and what her background is, to see me and to believe that anything is possible and that the sky’s the limit.”
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When I started in surgery, there were a few women who worked as surgeons and even fewer who specialized in a disease that is so feminine and intimate. Over the years I realized that I wanted to be there – a woman for the women,” she continued. ...
KHATIB WAS integrated into Jewish society from an early age. She used to wake up at 5:30 a.m. to take a bus from Acre to Haifa and then return around 5 p.m. to do homework, go to bed, and return to school the next day.
“I had very little social life and not so much time to think about everything,” she said with a laugh."

Israel’s first Arab breast surgeon has gift for shattering glass ceiling - The Jerusalem Post

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