Trailblazers The DO Book Club, Oct. 2022: The Doctors Blackwell This history of the famous sisters and pioneers in medicine casts a spotlight on a tumultuous time in American history. Oct. 1, 2022SaturdayOctober 2022 issue The DO Book Club Joan Naidorf, DO Joan Naidorf, DO, is an emergency physician, speaker, and author from Alexandria, Virginia. Contact Dr. Naidorf
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The Doctors Blackwell, to me, was a complicated and fascinating narrative. The two sisters accomplished enormous milestones in furthering women’s admission into American medical schools while facing enormous obstacles from mostly men and some women. I was surprised at their churlish attitude towards other women and their adversity to being involved in suffrage. Emily’s words, “You will be brought in contact with the working ways of men. Get from this new companionship all that is good, but do not lose in it a particle of what is truly and desirably your own … It is for us to do our part, that hereafter the old and time-honored profession may be proud of her daughters as of her sons.” to me, was profound. In my humble opinion women cannot progress without support from men and men cannot progress without support from women……. There were many other pioneering woman. Check out——> https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/history/women-med-ed.html#:~:text=Julia%20Rogers%20recruited%20fundraising%20support%20from%20among%20the,Clara%20Barton%2C%20Mabel%20Gardiner%20Hubbard%20Bell%2C%20and%20others. Oct. 13, 2022, at 11:22 am Reply