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Surgical Nuggets
by Surgical Nuggets
SURGICAL NUGGETS is a public audio library for medical students and surgical trainees.
Episodes
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Women Who Cut. Episode 11: The First Who Was Allowed.
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 11: The First Who Was Allowed. Episode 11 tells the story of Ogino Ginko (1851–1913), the first woman licensed to practise Western medicine in Japan. The episode opens with the catalysing event: at sixteen, Ginko was infected with gonorrhoea by…
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Women Who Cut. Episode 10: The First Fellow.
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 10: The First Fellow. The first female Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The first female Fellow of any surgical Royal College in Britain and Ireland. Trinity College turned her away. The odds were stacked against her from the...
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Women Who Cut. Episode 09: The Woman Who Did Not Need Permission.
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 09: The Woman Who Did Not Need Permission. In 1622, in Üsküdar, a woman named Küpeli Saliha Hatun walked into a Sharia court, registered as a surgeon, and began taking patients. She did not hide. She did not disguise herself. She did not petition...
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Women Who Cut. Episode 08: The Woman Who Did Not Cut.
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 09: The Woman Who Did Not Need Permission. Helen Taussig invented paediatric cardiology after Harvard told her she could attend lectures but wouldn’t be given a degree. She identified the cause of blue baby syndrome, designed the surgical fix, and...
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Women Who Cut. Episide 07: Always Raising The Bar.
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 7: Always Raising The Bar. Kadambini Ganguly was the first woman to graduate from an Indian university, the first Indian woman to qualify in Western medicine, and the first South Asian woman on the British Medical Register, all achieved in…
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Women Who Cut. Episode 06: The Hands That Delivered A Nation
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 06: The Hands That Delivered A Nation. Lin Qiaozhi was born in 1901 on Gulangyu Island, China, and went on to become the founder of modern Chinese gynaecology and obstetrics. She trained at the Peking Union Medical College, pausing her entrance…
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Women Who Cut. Episode 05: Seven Women, One Riot.
Surgical Nuggets presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 5: Seven Women, One Riot. Sophia Jex-Blake recruited 6 women via a newspaper advert and stormed Edinburgh Medical School alongside them. When the university threw them out, she built her own school for women and spent a decade fighting the legal...
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Women Who Cut. Episode 04: Buried With Her Medal They Tried To Take Away. .mp3
Surgical Nuggets presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 4: Buried With Her Medal They Wanted Back. Mary Edwards Walker was the first female surgeon in the US Army. She crossed enemy lines during the Civil War to treat wounded civilians, was captured as a spy, and held as a prisoner of war for four...
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Women Who Cut. Episode 03: What Could You Do In 900 Days?
Surgical Nuggets Presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 3: What Could You Do In 900 Days? In 1883 Anandi Gopal Joshi sailed from Calcutta to America. Already ill, with no institutional backing, in a country she had never seen, to become the first Indian woman ever to qualify in Western medicine. She…
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Women Who Cut. Episode 02: Opening The door
Surgical Nuggets presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 2: Opening The Door. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States, but the door didn't open easily. In this episode, we explore how she fought her way into a profession that didn't want...
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Women Who Cut. Episode 01: The Surgeon Before Time Allowed.
Surgical Nuggets presents: WOMEN WHO CUT. Episode 1: The Surgeon Before Time Allowed. In 1812, a woman enrolled at Edinburgh Medical School, graduated as a doctor, and joined the British Army, as a man. For fifty years, James Barry was one of the finest military surgeons of the 19th century.…
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