‘Doctors Blackwell’ Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the “complicated, prickly” trailblazers.

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