The surgeon’s job is both exciting and difficult. Being a surgeon means performing operations on patients, welcoming and serving customers, and making important patient health and safety decisions. To take on these responsibilities well, you need to have some main qualities including medical knowledge, physical and mental strength, good persuasion skills, excellent eyesight and skillful hands, and good teamwork and communication skills. This job is traditionally done by men as they think men have better medical knowledge than women. However, these days, both men and women can make great surgeons. First of all, men and women have the same abilities to learn and apply medical knowledge. Besides, women can be as mentally strong as men. Therefore, women can perform long and tiring operations as well. Furthermore, people will benefit from having both male and female surgeons, for example, female surgeons help female patients to be less shy about gynecological examination and operations.