Word: medication
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors were outlawed by male colleagues, and druggists refused to fill their prescriptions. When their patients died a few were even mobbed. Today there are almost 200,000 men doctors in the U. S., only 7,500 women doctors. It is still very difficult for a woman to enter medical school, or for a "hen medic" to get hospital and university connections. Yet in spite of their handicaps, a number of women doctors in the U. S. have made remarkable contributions to the progress of medicine...