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Mar 2014
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Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Fem...

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It's not a story of a person with a childhood dream of pursuing a career that wasn't available to them. Dr. Blackwell had no interest in medicine as a child. But she paved the way for women who came after her and changed the face of medicine in the U.S. 
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