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America’s First Woman Doctor
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Elizabeth Blackwell graduated at the head of her medical school class in the early 1840’s and, unable to find anyone who would hire a female doctor, started her own practice. In 1857, she opened a hospital run by an all-female staff.
An entry from her journal in the year before the hospital’s opening shed light on [...]
