Miller Law Office, PLLC - February 2022

Miller Law Office, PLLC - February 2022

February 2022

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Just What the Doctor Ordered CELEBRATING NATIONAL WOMEN PHYSICIANS DAY

We’ve come a long way since 1847 when Elizabeth Blackwell was only accepted to medical school as a practical joke. Despite receiving mockery, she attended and graduated first in her class. But female physicians still face many obstacles. Only about 35% of doctors today are women, and they earn an average salary of 8% less than their male counterparts. Blackwell was the first American woman to receive a medical degree, and National Women Physicians Day is celebrated on Feb. 3 to honor her birthday and the work of all female doctors. Two women in my life are or have been physicians, so I want to take a moment to celebrate them. My mother-in-law, Celia Kaye, was raised by traditional Polish immigrant parents who believed their four daughters should be teachers. But she didn’t bow to expectations and enrolled in medical school. It was the ‘60s, and while female doctors weren’t unheard of, they were hardly commonplace. In fact, Celia never changed her name when she got married because, at the time, there was no straightforward process for updating her name on her medical license. Celia became a geneticist and helped discover an extremely rare disease that bears her name today. She taught at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, and in 1998, she was even inducted into the San Antonio Women’s Hall of Fame — a proud night for everyone who knew her.

her grandkids). I usually got to take her back to the airport at the end of the trip. We would have great conversations about medical ethics. Anything from patient privacy versus the need for public health doctors to get >Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4

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