Women surgeons take cutting edge

By Lisa Wachsmuth
Updated September 2 2015 - 2:40pm, first published August 28 2015 - 8:23pm
Dr Soni Putnis (front, centre) with junior doctors (front) Rasha Gendy and Krista Appavoo and (back) Katherine Zhu, Michelle Tan, Jenny Brady and Abigail Attwell-Heap. Picture: GREG TOTMAN
Dr Soni Putnis (front, centre) with junior doctors (front) Rasha Gendy and Krista Appavoo and (back) Katherine Zhu, Michelle Tan, Jenny Brady and Abigail Attwell-Heap. Picture: GREG TOTMAN

As a surgeon-in-training, Soni Putnis was often the only woman in the room; now she is leading the first all-female team of trainee surgeons at Wollongong Hospital.

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