can anyone solve this riddle?

This topic was created in the Aries forum by arieswoman on Thursday, August 17, 2006 and has 8 replies.

Understanding the Riddle of the Surging Surgeon

The surgeon is the boy's mother. This riddle highlights assumptions about gender roles in professions and encourages thinking beyond stereotypes to solve complex problems.

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A father and son go for a car ride and got into an accident and the father died. THe boy was in critical condition and in the hospital waiting to be operated on. WHen the resident surgeon walks into the operating room. The surgeon looks at the patitent and says I'm sorry, but I cannot operate on him, because he is my son. Why is that?