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The surgeon whose secret lasted until death
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Dr. James Barry spent fifty years screaming at incompetent British military officials and performing the British Empire's first successful cesarean section where both mother and child survived. It wasn't until death that the fiercely private, duel-fighting surgeon was discovered to have been assigned female at birth, flawlessly hiding his biological sex to practice medicine.
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