For the month of March which is Women’s History month I will highlight a different historical woman each day. Considering we are living through a pandemic and the importance of those who work in the medical
profession, I want to start with the first woman in America to receive a medical degree. Elizabeth Blackwell
First Female Doctor in America
Blackwell was inspired to pursue medicine by a dying friend who said her ordeal would have been better had she had a female physician.
Rejected everywhere she applied, she was ultimately admitted to Geneva College in rural New York, however, her acceptance letter was intended as a practical joke.
Blackwell faced… More
