How early women doctors blazed a trail in New Orleans, opening their own clinic and practices
How early women doctors blazed a trail in New Orleans, opening their own clinic and practices
Jun 26 2025, 8:30 AM
https://archive.ph/c32fw
Quote:During the height of Jim Crow segregation, the Dispensary’s stated mission was to treat anyone “irrespective of sect, creed, or color.” It was one of the only White-run hospitals in New Orleans that administered to African Americans, and The Times-Picayune reported in 1948 that Edith was one of the first women in the South to perform a major operation — an appendectomy on an African American girl — helping pave the way for “this to become a legal and commonplace occurrence.”
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https://archive.ph/c32fw
Quote:During the height of Jim Crow segregation, the Dispensary’s stated mission was to treat anyone “irrespective of sect, creed, or color.” It was one of the only White-run hospitals in New Orleans that administered to African Americans, and The Times-Picayune reported in 1948 that Edith was one of the first women in the South to perform a major operation — an appendectomy on an African American girl — helping pave the way for “this to become a legal and commonplace occurrence.”