The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D. (virtual program)
When:
Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024 6:30p -
7:30p
Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024 6:30p -
7:30p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
$8
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, History, Rainy Day Ideas, Virtual
Event website:
https://bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Virtual/intro/#2024_Winter_Programming
Join Boston By Foot and Susan Wilson to explore the trail blazing life of Susan Dimock, M.D. To her contemporaries in Boston of the 1870s, Susan Dimock was well known as a strong, selfless innovator in American medicine—one of the first group of female physicians to provide the unique professional health care needed by women, and one of the most respected and beloved surgeons in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Born and raised in the slaveholding South, she escaped from the ravages of Civil War, fled North during wartime, intersected with the Underground Railroad, connected with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska at the innovative New England Hospital for Women and Children, studied medicine in Zurich and Vienna, and returned to Boston where she ran the women’s hospital, executed complex surgeries, and molded America’s first real training school for nurses. Dr. Dimock is the namesake of Roxbury's Dimock Street and Dimock Center.
