Dr. Nellie Barsness Goes to War
from Pionerd Hosted by Robert Thomas
Dr. Nellie Barsness died 60 years ago today. She became the first woman born in Minnesota to earn a medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1902, practicing medicine for over fifty years into her eighties. When the Army and the Red Cross both turned her away from serving as a doctor in World War I because of her gender, she found another way, receiving the highest honor from France.
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