With doodles as her signature, a Chicago pediatric surgeon makes surgery and casts a little less scary
CHICAGO -- As school ends, summer begins and the dangerous outdoors beckon, a quick tip: If you are a child and plan to break an arm or hand, or schedule surgery on an arm or hand, try and do this before Felicity Fishman goes on vacation.
She is a pediatric surgeon at Shriners Children’s Chicago hospital in the Montclare neighborhood, and by all standards, esteemed and valued for her medical dexterity and intellectual gravitas.
She’s also an associate professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation at Loyola Medicine. She came to Chicago in 2017 after serving at the Yale University School of Medicine. She’s been an attending surgeon at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut, a peer reviewer for the Journal of Hand Surgery, and, to
