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Madeleine Brès (1839–1925) was the first female medical doctor in France. [72] Sophia Jex-Blake (1840–1912) was an English physician, feminist and teacher who was the first woman to practice medicine in Scotland in 1878. Sophia Bambridge (1841–1910) was the first female doctor in American Samoa.
Female doctors are paid 25% less than their male counterparts on average, according to the 2019 Medscape Physician Compensation Report, earning an estimated $2 million less over a 40-year career ...
Female patients have significantly lower rates of 30-day mortality and readmission when cared for by female physicians. This is the finding of a new analysis of 750,000 Medicare recipients ...
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from a western medical school Geneva Medical College, where Elizabeth Blackwell graduated in 1849. While both men and women are enrolling in medical school at similar rates, in 2015 the United States reported having 34% active female physicians and 66% active male physicians.
The study compared hospitals in Canada where female surgeons and anesthesiologists made up more than 35% of the surgical teams to hospitals with a smaller share of female doctors.
Ida Joe Brooks (MD 1891), among Arkansas's earliest women physicians and the first female faculty member at the University of Arkansas Medical School [14] Rebecca Lee Crumpler (MD1864), the first African-American to receive an M.D. in the United States and a graduate of the New England Female College (1848–1873), which merged with Boston ...
She was named one of America's leading doctors in 2008, by Black Enterprise magazine. [22] She was considered by Essence in 2009 to be one of the year's 25 Most Influential African Americans. [10] In 2016, she was included in the list of top 10 Caribbean-born female doctors in the US, compiled by News Americas. [23]
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