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Black History Month Special Edition: Words from Dr. Brittany Reid

Onsite’s Dr. Brittany Reid As an African American female physician during a 2-year long pandemic, Black History Month is hitting me differently this year. I celebrate the accomplishments of the Black female physicians who came before me – Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Patricia Bath, Myra Adele Logan, Helen Octavia Dickens, Georgia Rooks Dwelle, Gertrude Hunter, and Dorothy Celeste Boulding Ferebee, but I also

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Amplifying Black Voices in Medicine

In 1949, Dr. Helen Elizabeth Nash became the first Black woman to join the attending staff at St. Louis Children’s Hospital. That same year she was also one of only four Black physicians—and the only woman—invited to join the faculty at Washington University School of Medicine. As a pediatrician, Dr. Nash spent her life advocating

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