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Dorothy Anderson: A Pathologist in the 1930s
Dorothy Anderson, who is the subject of our first season of physician in the 1930s. She wanted to go into surgery, but surgery was closed to women. Dorothy ended up becoming a pathologist because patients didn't want to see a female doctor. Women, female physicians back then tended to work behind the scenes.
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