A female doctor has visited her patient in their hospital room diligently every day post-surgery, yet the patient complains: “No doctor has been in all week!” Katja Schlosser, medical director of the Agaplesion Mittelhessen hospital in Germany and president of the female surgeons’ association, lists many examples of how the few women who work as surgeons fare on the job. In her career, she has been “the first” or “the only” woman in most positions, she says. Surgeons who are pregnant are no longer allowed to go into the operating theatre, and can only do administrative work, she says. “The pat…