Surgical history: everything you wanted to know
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The Role of Women in Surgery
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor to graduate in America. Women made up no more than 6% of any medical school class in the US and Canada until 1970. By 2001, that number was 24%. And currently it's about equal,. But for much of the history of surgery and of medicine in general, women have had key roles to play.
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