Born in 1821, Elizabeth Blackwell was determined to become a physician. But she was rejected from every med school she applied to bc she was a woman. She was finally admitted to Geneva College, but her acceptance letter was intended as a joke.
Reminds me also of Sister Kenny, rejected by the male medical profession as recently as 1940s. "Sister Kenny was roundly ridiculed by the mostly male medical establishment, even as her paralyzed patients recovered." https://www.nursing.virginia.edu/news/flashback-sister-kenny/
Geneva Medical College was founded 1834, in Geneva, New York, (on one of the Finger Lakes) currently known as Hobart and William Smith Colleges. In 1871, the medical school was transferred to Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY then in 1999 to SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse has “Elizabeth Blackwell Street” and a wonder portrait inside Upstate Medical. #UpstateNY Hobart has more images here https://www.hws.edu/about/history/elizabeth-blackwell/photos.aspx
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It's just bonkers that for eons women are told to take care of people, and then when they want to take care of people they're told "No, not like that" from misogynistic institutions.
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