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Introducing The Incredible Professor Dame Averil Mansfield! 💫 Born in Blackpool in 1937, Averil was just eight when a children’s book about surgery sparked her dream of becoming a surgeon. Averil trained as a general surgeon and became a consultant in Liverpool in 1972, at a time when only 2% of surgeons were women. Ten years later, she joined St Mary’s Hospital in London, and in 1993, Averil became the first female Professor of Surgery in the UK. Back then, just 75 of the 3,500 consultant surg

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