Dr. Mechin: A Black Female Physician in America

Dr. Mechin was born around 1900 and she went to medical school at NYU. She ended up training under some physicians as the apprentice model, which is actually similar to the way that residency and medical school is. And then after a few years she left them because they wouldn't acknowledge her in public. They continued to raise her rent without increasing her pay to the point where she couldn't afford anymore. So then she left, opened her own practice. Dr. Chin counteracted this by basically doing house calls to these black patients,. providing an array of medical care.