How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from an orthopedic surgeon? (You hide it in his medical journals)
How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from a radiologist? (You hide it on the patient)
How do you hide a ten-dollar bill from a plastic surgeon? (You can't hide a ten-dollar bill from a plastic surgeon.)
It requires some familiarity with the various specialist sterotypes to laugh at such humor, but orthopods *are* known for disliking academics, just as internists *are* known for being compulsive anal-retentives, and women *are* known to prefer the tidier specialties such as radiology, anesthesiology, opthalmology the various internal medicine specialties.
If you need general surgeons, you need general surgeons. If half of the new medical school grads (women) veer away from that specialty, then there will be fewer general surgeons. Add to that other pressures, and there's no dressmaker (dressmaker?) waiting for you in the OR when you crash your car.
and no, taking these online quarrels too seriously is not something that would show up on my profile