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Friday, January 18, 2013

An American Physician: Elizabeth Garret Anderson






















Elizabeth Garret Anderson, the first American woman physician, has founded the New Hospital for Women in London. Anderson’s close friend and mentor, Elizabeth Blackwell, assists Anderson as a professor of gynecology. Anderson expresses the difficulties of trying to make it in the medical field as a woman. Anderson is determined to pave the way for women and pass an act permitting women to enter medical professions. 

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