For Dr. Rania Elkhatib, her job at the Rambam Medical Centre, Haifa is a chance to be an emissary for her community. She also embodies the best sort of inter-community relations.
Dr Elkhatib (28), is the first Israeli Arab woman to become a plastic surgeon after studying medicine at the Haifa Technion. She explains she decided to focus on plastic surgery because "... in our community plastic surgery isn't very advanced and it's not well accepted so I feel a bit like an emissary for my community, to go into this field and take it forward.”
The Rambam’s plastic surgeons treat a number of conditions, ranging from burns, war injuries and cleft palates to breast and facial reconstruction for cancer patients.
Thirty per cent of doctors at Rambam are women, and the representation of Arab physicians is proportionate to the numbers in the population.
While the hospital is committed to providing equal opportunities, Prof. Yehuda Ullmann, head of the plastic surgery department, stresses that doctors are chosen purely on merit:
"Plastic surgery residency is the most wanted residency in medicine, not just in Israel but all over the world, and she was elected, not because she's Arab, not because she's a woman, but because she is Dr. Elkhatib and and she is a very good doctor so we are lucky to have her here," he said.
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