Doctor Curmudgeon® If She Were Writing Now

By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist

Once upon a time, in 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to be allowed to have an MD degree.
Of course, it wasn’t easy.

My predecessor has been in my thoughts, and I wonder what she would say today.

And so, I have tried to walk in her shoes and capture what her thoughts might be.