This podcast was published on May 31, 2017 at HealthNewsReview.org.To read the blog -- and background resources -- associated with this blog visit:https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2017/05/podcast-memoirs-female-surgeon/~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Only 7 percent of orthopedic surgeons in the United States are women.Dr. Julie Switzer is one of them.In this podcast we touch on gender, but we mostly address two other topics. First, is Switzer's passion for caring for the elderly who sustain fractures. Second, the emerging sports focus in how orthopedics is covered by the media, and marketed to the public.Does this sports medicine framing reflect what orthopedics is really about? Is there more to this specialty than the jock-centric image we often associate with it?Switzer has a unique perspective on these and other important questions.