Elizabeth Blackwell
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Oct 23, 2026
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Her criticisms of other women could become heated.
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A contemporary of Nightingale's was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to become a trained and certified medical doctor.
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Dr. Blackwell approached Florence during the late 1850s with the idea of setting up a medical school to train female doctors.
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Owing to the publicity which her work in the Crimea had generated, Nightingale had, by this time, amassed an impressive fund of donations totalling roughly £50,000 for the purposes of setting up a training school for nurses.
Mark HamiltonHOST
After completing the required three years of study, Lillian earned her medical degree.
Mark HamiltonHOST
Although Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman accepted to medical school born in 1849, Lillian's graduating class of 22 students in 1893 included just three women.
Mark HamiltonHOST
Lillian was reportedly the only woman to attend the 1895 convention of the American Medical Association in Denver, Colorado.
Mark HamiltonHOST
As an assistant to Dr. McGehee, Lillian helped perform plastic surgery before that medical practice was named a specialty.
Gary NullHOST
No matter how innocent her pleasures, someone is gonna be jealous.
Gary NullHOST
Well, when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to medical school in 1847, she was turned down by school after school.
Gary NullHOST
Geneva Medical College in Upstate New York finally admitted her only because the faculty put the question to the all-male student body, and the students, thinking it was a joke, voted yes.
Gary NullHOST
In 1849, she became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
EdenGUEST
I look him up like every time.
ChrisHOST
Mike, in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first female to graduate from an American university in which field? Medicine? Medicine's a correct answer.
ChrisHOST
Eden, what is the name of the coffee house frequented by Monica, Rachel, Phoebe, Ross, Joey, and Chandler?
EdenGUEST
Central Perk.