Dr. Karyn L. Butler still remembers vividly the responses she received at a number of surgery training programs when she applied there some 20 years ago.

“At some of the interviews, they would ask me something like, “How do you know you’re strong enough to do this, to become a surgeon,’” recalled Butler, now director of surgical critical care and associate director of surgery at Hartford Hospital. “Surgery was seen as the men’s club back them.”
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