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<p>Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer became the first woman to ride with ambulance crews as an emergency physician, in New York City,
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working from a horse-drawn wagon in the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side.
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Originally, Emily Dunning thought she would become a nurse. It was Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi who recommended
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Cornell University’s medical preparatory course for her education instead.
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Dr. Jacobi believed Emily Dunning would choose to become a doctor.
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In 1897 she enrolled at the College of Medicine of the New York Infirmary.
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The day after she completed her residency, in 1904, she married Dr. Benjamin Barringer.
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Quickly, she became frustrated that his prospects were so much better than hers.
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She said, “He could count on a splendid training in one of the big general hospitals...
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with post-graduate work abroad, in whatever line he elected...
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And I? What did I see ahead?” Her opportunities seemed greatly limited.
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Again, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi advised Dr. Barringer, urging her to take the competitive internship exams
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held by New York’s large area hospitals even though women had never been allowed to compete.
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Together, the two women pressured several hospitals to open their internships to women.
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Dr. Barringer became the first woman medical resident at Gouverneur Hospital in New York City.
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Her male colleagues harassed her assigning her difficult schedules for on-call and ward duties.
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She continued with her work, despite these difficult circumstances
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and was widely reported in the local papers as something of a novelty as a woman ambulance physician.
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During World War II, Dr. Barringer made headlines again, lobbying Congress for military commissions for women physicians.
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While women could serve as contract surgeons in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps,
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they were not commissioned employees, and so were not given the same benefits as men.
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In 1943, the Sparkman Act was signed into law, allowing women the same benefits
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as men in the Army and Navy.
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Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer created a legacy of helping women achieve equal status,
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in the medical profession, and in the U.S. military;
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Opportunities passed on to the generations to come.</p>
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