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Medicine.
Healers, Surgeons, First-Ever Doctors
Physicians and surgeons who opened wards that had been sealed by segregation, invented the blood banks that saved the wounded of two world wars, and patented the tools of modern eye surgery. This is a field defined by patient life saved and by patience earned.
The Figures
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Charles R. Drew
1904–1950
Medicine
Daniel Hale Williams
1856–1931
Medicine
Jane Cooke Wright
1919–2013
Medicine
Patricia Bath
1942–2019
Medicine
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
1831–1895
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