At Memorial Regional Hospital, Doctors Day Goes Hand In Hand With Women's History Month

By Hank Tester, CBS Miami

April 1, 2022

Standing in the middle of an operating room Dr. Heather Wright gets right to the point, “I would tell the women out there who are considering surgery as a career, they would have the best career in the world.”

Dr. Wright is the chief of breast surgical oncology at Memorial Cancer Institute, and mentors a five-member all-female surgical resident group.

Rachel Pruett is a member of that unique group, in her 4th year as a resident, who told CBS4 News photojournalist Barry Smith, “I was almost through medical school… I decided I wanted to be a surgeon because I wanted to use the hands I got in order to make a change in people’s lives.”

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