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To Battle, And Battle, And Battle: The Many Struggles Of American Red Cross Founder Clara Barton

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 14, 2022

Clara Barton was on this planet for nine decades, and spent roughly seven of those locked in institutional struggles that would have broken and gutted a person...

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Between The Children And Catastrophe, A Woman: Dr. Frances O. Kelsey’s Victory Over Thalidomide

Dale DeBakcsyJune 8, 2022

In September of 1960, the American pharmaceutical company Richardson-Merrell submitted their application to the FDA for the approval of Europe’s new wonder dru...

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Book Review: Letter To A Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2021

Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...

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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 2, 2020

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...

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An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 8, 2020

The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...

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From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo Domingo: The Journey Of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser

Dale DeBakcsyJune 25, 2020

In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...

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A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek

Dale DeBakcsyJune 18, 2020

It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...

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Fact v Fiction: “And The People Stayed Home” Viral Poem By Kitty O’Meara (2020), Not Kathleen O’Mara (1869)

wyskApril 6, 2020

"And the people stayed home." This is the opening line of an untitled poem that’s gone wildly viral. Social media posts shared now 10s of 1,000s of times by pe...

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