On March 18, 1889, Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915)
became the first Native American woman to graduate from
medical school.
She was top of her class at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
The college was one of the only medical schools on the East
Coast to accept women as students in the late 1800’s.
Susan LaFlesche Picotte Memorial Hospital
A bronze sculpture of trailblazing Nebraska Native American
physician.
Susan once wrote, “It has always been a desire of mine to study medicine ever since I was a small girl,” for even then I saw the
need of my people for a good physician.”
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