Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler is considered the first Black woman physician in the U.S.
A Sept. 1, 2006, portrait of Dr. Marilyn Gaston in Potomac, Md., after jointly winning a $100,000 prize for Americans over 60 who devised innovative ways to address tough social problems.asmine Brown is still in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, but she has already published a book about medicine:
“Growing up, people were telling me I’m not good enough—like I’m Black so that means I’m not smart and I won’t do well in school,” Brown says. “Recognizing how powerful it was for me to learn about these women, I wanted to give that hope to other Black girls, other Black people— really anybody who has been told for some reason that they’re not capable.”Crumpler is considered the first Black woman physician in the U.S.
She moved back to Boston, buying a house in Beacon Hill that also served as her medical office, seeing patients regardless of whether they could afford her care. She wrote, designed to provide health advice fo Black women who couldn’t afford a doctor. Considered the first known medical book written by a Black woman, it covered topics like washing a newborn, treating burns, and managing measles.
Chinn would even help Howard University-trained Black surgeon Dr. Peter Marshall Murray perform surgery in patients’ homes, using the patient’s bed —or even an ironing board, if it was a small child—as the operating table. They would use patients’ ovens to sterilize surgical equipment. When she suspected older patients might have cancer, she took biopsies and snuck them to her white doctor classmates at what’s now Memorial Sloan-Kettering who would analyze the samples for her.
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