European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Not enough time in their lives Don t want to be one of the a distaff Docta Washington Slars omm Ciot Wmk calling Early some did t. They Are married sink. Divorced Black while and a proliferating Breed women doctors. And it has Ukon nearly a Century for them to nuke any gains. From so join 1%q, the percent age of female physicians in the United slates jumped eight tenths of one percent up in percent. According to inc american Mcd Iccil society by i9ho the National figure has reached 12 percent. In Washington the a medical so Cicely reports that 15 percent of Ilic City s doctors Are women. Dut he big Jam came during the Post decade. In 1980, one fourth or nil american Media students lire women. Ind hey Are making the same commit ment men Are including in att rage 132,000 tuition Bill and a minimum Seten years of Irwin Long. The figures started to turn the Corner in 1972. Up to then the number of female applicants was tits same is the number of women in the first year observed or. Tatum is Bowles Dean of academic affairs no George. Washington University medical school. In Short women Werc t being turned Down by medical schools hey Sim ply weren t applying. In 19ho, female students agree that being in medical school is no big Deal. They re just medics students period. However they seem to try harder. The association of american medical colleges statistics show a higher per Cen Sage of women than men in the lop of medical school classes. But it was t always that Way. Elizabeth Ali Ekwall was rejected by every medical school in new York City and Philadelphia before being accepted As 4 student at Geneva medical school Geneva. . When she Grad Saied in 1849, she became the first female physician in the Unile Stales. then she could t find a Hospital in the United slates 10 do her residency and had to go to London to Complete her training. She returned to new York and founded the first ii.5. Medical school for women Iri an Effort to help ease the struggle of american women wanting to become physicians. Bra cow paved the Way those who follow share her sense of determination. Many also share a problem fulfilling Many traditional female role in addition to meeting professional demands. All the women Doctura interviewed agreed there just in t enough time in their lives. Joy dra Vaj one or id tin men graduate in a class of 120 it Georgetown medical school in 1973. Today she s a special in critical care at the Washington Hospital Center Shock trauma unit. She oversee cues ranging Fram open hear surgery a hit and run coma a aliens. In a Shock trauma unit the Are in such need of medical help they Don t care whether they get in from a woman or a Man dras Sunyi. The most difficult thing for dras 33. Is a shortage of time. I be been trying to gel my hair Cut for inc past two month and i just Haven t Hud the time. Balancing my life Between the personal and the professional is a chronic struggle. Even though fathers arc taking n More Active role in helping to raise children women Stilt end up with a greater part of the responsibility. If n Man comes Home after being up All night he goes to bed. I conic Home from being up All night and my 3-year-old son David i waiting at the door. He s ready for his time with me. I m sure my being a single Parent has a lot to do with dras thinks women who work still live with some guilt about not spending enough time with Iligir children. The guilt Complex is born with the kid. They both Cost out at the same but she says it s silly to think of not having a child Juss because of being a doctor. In fact i think i m u better physician because i have Judith Bader is married and has a 10-year-old Stepson. She is an oncologist a specialist in cancer at the National institutes of health in belch sea my. Her primary expertise is the Field of a Genc Lic Dis ease of the skin and nervous system. When she was 10, she wanted to be a nurse. But she remembers her father saying no daughter of mine a going to spend the rest of her life taking urine she told him Well then i la be a she graduated from Yale medical school in 1971, one of seven females in a class of 90. The most difficult thing in medical school Bider Saywas Only hating six Peers. At that time there were no women undergraduates at Vale. Another difficulty was the absence of Rock models. There weren t models for women in medical school when i was theft. We had to be the Rok Model for our Sel now Dader Sayn the most difficult thing is the balancing act Between my personal life and Bader says that most of her women friends Are physicians. Women who Are not doctors think we Are some thing special. They Don t know i iat we Don t think we re special. All we did was put in a lot of Mary Ellen Brademas was first married after one year of College. She lived in Michigan was raising four Chil Dren and was a Pun time Model. Brademas recalls a conversation in 1973 with one of her daughters who told her Well you can Only be n Model until you re 45, at the most. I d rather spend my life being a it was like a Light bulb going on Brademas. Bays. It absolutely hit me at thai moment. That s what 1 wanted to do become a a month inter she was in College. She finished up three years in two by going to school around the clock. At age 37, she started Georgetown medical school and graduated in 1979 As a dermatologist. She is now a resident at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. I was interested in dermatology from a very Young age my Mother and grandmother had Beautiful skin. You can diagnose so much by looking at the skin. You can Law see now fast it is Healing unlike organs or Bones brads Masias. When i come into the Hospital every morning Bra Dumas says i feel gratified with what i m doing with my life. Of course time is a she and rep. John Brademas u-inj., net when she we at Georff Utonn and Ibey were married in 1977. People do what s meal important or them to do she lays. If it it important to wort Cut a Page 14 the stars and stripes female residents coming through the hospitals Are extraordinarily
