Re: [Leica] There Are Many Women in Medicine

["Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>]

absolutely Buzz... far more of my MD colleagues now are women... things have changed
vastly... I am glad your wife  will have the opportunity to work with Ted and Sandy...

as to your question... who was the  first woman at Hopkins in Medicine...I don't know, but
I am curious...Steve


> In fact, my wife is scheduled to be one of the women in medicine whose
> work Ted will document when he's in Boston.
>
> My wife is a surgeon and works with many other women doctors.  She also
> works with many women who are not physicians, as well as with numerous
> men who are nurses, surgical technicians (do you still have that
> photograph, B.D.?), lab techs, nurse practitioners, physicians
> assistants, EMTs, or who fill other duties throughout the world of
> medical care but aren't physicians.  The CEO of a major teaching
> hospital where my wife has admitting privileges is a woman.
>
> Slightly more than 50% of medical students in the U.S. are women and I
> am certain that with time a number of them will become grumpy old docs
> who blame their patients for their own illnesses.  Probably in the same
> proportion as men who became grumpy old docs.
>
> Almost...but not quite Leica relevant, anyone out there know who was the
> first woman admitted to Johns Hopkins medical school?
>
> Buzz Hausner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Steve
> Barbour
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 4:11 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Women in Medicine
>
> Hi Sonny....hmmmmm....It's interesting that you have rather curiously
> equated Women in Medicine  selectively with nurses,  and
> further...associated docs with  "grumpy,  and men.... "
>
> I agree with your affection about  "Women in Medicine"  (Ted and Sandy
> are here at Phoenix Children's Hospital  photographing this very week),
> but to set the record straight...women in medicine today  includes many,
> many, doctors....as well as med students, nurses, and many others... and
> further, the fact is...  many nurses today are men....
>
> Steve
>
>
> > Ted Grant and Sandy Carter are busy preparing a book on one of my
> > favorite sunjects, "Women in Medicine."
> >
> > My mother was a  RN, my kids' Mother is a  nurse, and increasingly the
> > frontline caregivers are nurses.
> >
> > Last week, we were at Ochsner New Orleans for an appointment for my
> son
> > Eric, and the Nurse Practicioner was the first  person he saw.
> >
> > When I go to the doctor, some grumpy old Doc tells me to stop what
> I've
> > been doing to cause whatever is wrong with me.
> >
> > http://sonc.com/eric_nurse.htm
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > SonC  (Sonny Carter)
> > http://www.sonc.com
> >
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