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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Marie E. Zakrewska</p>
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<p>In 1862, Dr. Marie Zakrzewska opened her own hospital, The New England Hospital for Women and Children.
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It was the first hospital in Boston, and only the second in America to be run by women physicians.
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Dr. Zakrzewska had been part of the first generation of women physicians in America.
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Barred from working in existing hospitals and excluded from teaching jobs at medical schools,
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some of these women went on to found dispensaries, hospitals, and schools to train women students and employ women physicians.
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Marie Zakrzewska was born in Berlin, the daughter of a midwife.
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As a young woman, she accompanied her mother on her rounds.
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She trained at the Royal Charité Hospital, and in 1852 become a midwife.
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When her promotion to Head Midwife not long after she had finished her training
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was met with disapproval from some of the faculty, she left to study medicine in the United States.
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Although opportunities in America were also limited, Marie Zakrzewska was aided by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell,
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the first woman to graduate from medical school in America.
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With Dr. Blackwell’s help, she enrolled at Cleveland Western Reserve College,
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traditionally, an all-male medical school.
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Marie Zakrzewska was one of only six women admitted to the school in the 1850s.
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She graduated with her M.D. in 1856.
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Dr. Blackwell and her sister Emily became an inspiration to Dr. Zakrzewska
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by planning to found a small hospital where women physicians could work and learn.
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Dr. Zakrzewska joined their effort, and the New York Infirmary for Women and Children opened in 1857.
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She served as resident physician at the hospital for two years.
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She moved to Boston to accept the position of Professor of Obstetrics at the New England Female Medical College.
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Her students, encountering the same obstacles as other women physicians, found it difficult to get work after graduation.
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Dr. Zakrzewska also disagreed with the founder of the New England Female Medical College over the school’s curriculum.
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She had proposed courses in dissection and microscopy to enhance the training of students
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and keep up with the developing field of scientific medicine.
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But the director intended to limit women physicians to a lower educational level.
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Three years later, she resigned, to open her own hospital.
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The New England Hospital for Women and Children flourished under Dr. Zakrzewska’s direction.
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There, women physicians who were excluded from the majority of hospitals, could acquire clinical experience.
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She believed that women physicians must have the same training and base of scientific knowledge as their male counterparts
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to achieve the same levels of research and standards of practice.</p>
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