Friday, 16 September 2022
I need your help!
Hi everyone
Under the Knife has moved one step closer to becoming an actual book. I've finished working with Rachael, the lovely developmental editor and we've added a few more bits and pieces here and there to really make the book shine.
That means it's gone off to the copy editor for a proof-read, grammar check, and overall spit and polish.
So why do I need your help?
Well we all think that the tag line - 'The Rise and Fall of a Female Surgeon' makes me sound like a bad politician or leader, and I can't for the life of me come up with a new one.
So I'm handing it over to you. Go!
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Comments
Liz how about
From full on to bald and boobless
Or
From medic to patient and all stops in between
Or a journey from surgery to patient advocacy
posted 16th September 2022
Faith Despite Adversity
Your continued faith (not necessarily religious) in yourself becoming, and as, a breast surgeon despite the male dominated medical profession. Also, the faith others put in you despite their cancer diagnoses (as I did last year following my breast cancer diagnosis), your faith in other breast surgeons following your diagnosis and your continued faith and fight following yours and your mum's diagnoses.
posted 16th September 2022
A twist of fate.
posted 16th September 2022
Definitely not rise to fall as it sounds it was your own doing . From Surgeon to Patient : what medical practice doesn’t make perfect
posted 16th September 2022
*A Twist of Fate for a Female Surgeon.
posted 16th September 2022
Life as a Surgeon and Patient or From Surgeon to Patient. On the Front Line as Surgeon and Patient.
posted 16th September 2022
Hi Liz,
What about something like
Full Circle - Cancer Surgeon to Cancer Patient and all the stops along the way /or Finding my way through / or My Journey Inside the Circle ( alluding to your specialist knowledge!)
I like the idea of Circular journeys! I’m sure someone will come up with something better. Depends how ‘serious’ a title you want!
My Boobs and Other Boobs - a Cancer Surgeon to Cancer Patient /or A Journey
My Boobs - A Cancer surgeon to Cancer Patient - and all the boobs in between
Probably easier to be a little irreverent!
posted 16th September 2022
Making the cut as a Surgeon….
posted 16th September 2022
Hi Liz
A Female Surgeon's Journey Travelled
From Operating Room to oriordanliz
Don't Ignore the Elephant
posted 16th September 2022
A look at cancer from both sides of the scalpel
posted 16th September 2022
Could put before & link to your title, something like ‘The life of a cancer surgeon finding herself’ …. Under the knife
posted 16th September 2022
How about "Life on a knife edge"
posted 16th September 2022
How about:
A breast cancer surgeon’s journey from doctor to patient
posted 16th September 2022
I agree with others who say 'from surgeon to patient'
posted 16th September 2022
Picking up on all the others:
From surgeon to patient and all the boobs in between.
posted 16th September 2022
When your day job becomes you.
posted 16th September 2022
The Triumphs and Trials of
posted 16th September 2022
From the inside out; a breast surgeons personal journey with breast cancer.
posted 17th September 2022
My boobs in your hands.
posted 17th September 2022
Out of my hands
posted 17th September 2022
From theory to reality
posted 17th September 2022
Hi Liz,
I'd suggest something along the line of "Carving out the female breast surgeon", playing with the double meaning of carve out. The first part of your life would be "carving out" meaning how breast cancer "sculped" you, your abilities, and your successful career as a surgeon. The second part of your life is where cancer carved out (excised) your abilities and your career. And the third is the new sculpture, Liz as an advocate and all you've been doing redefining you and your purpose.
posted 19th September 2022
How about "From doing to being done"
posted 20th September 2022
Making the cut as a female surgeon in a man's world.
posted 20th September 2022
Making the cut as a female surgeon in a male dominated (operating) theatre.
posted 20th September 2022
Hi liz how about my boobs in another surgeons hand the inside truth of when the surgeon becomes the not so patient patient.
posted 21st September 2022
Please don’t use “The Rise and Fall..”. You haven’t fallen Liz, you’ve evolved as the result of an unpleasant medical condition. I’m glad it’s being rethought because I always thought it sounded like you’d done something bad, fallen from grace. I’ve had 3 wee breast cancers removed now and I’ve never thought “Why me?” - why not me, since it’s so common -and I’d hate to be called a “cancer victim”. Is it only women doctors who feel guilty about ill health or do the men feel that too? How about “Life on the other side”
posted 11th October 2022
The mammary memoirs of a female breast surgeon....
a life full of mammaries....
posted 25th October 2022