>Medicine hasn’t always been a level playing field—for patients or doctors. For centuries, women faced barriers just for studying, practicing, or researching medicine. Yet a handful of trailblazers broke through discrimination to reshape healthcare, simultaneously forwarding feminism in the United States. From Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a U.S. medical degree, to Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman physician, these trailblazers didn’t just treat patients; they transformed the profession itself.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/women-who-changed-medicine
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