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Show V V DESERET NEWS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1973 Weddings Abby D City-region- al The woman doctor today Shes come a sha Tonneson. a senior medical student at the University of Utah College of Medicine. long way since the year Fourth 1 In a By Carina Wadloy Deseret News Staff Writer c But there are rewards, too. Ask Miki Jerome, a junior at the U. of U. medical school, why she wants to be a doctor, for instance. "I want to make the world a better place. she says simhad the means to ply. "If end war if 1 had the talents to work for peace to to say wise things write to end racial injustice, 1 would. But I dont have those talents, so the alternative is to end suffering in one individual at a time. 1 ... It required heroic courage for Elizabeth Blackwell to surmount the prejudice against female doctors. Only through much hard work and sacrifice was she successful in dedicating hpr life to medicine. ... She Utah, studied in then went to the Womens Medical College in Pennsylvania for her training. ... ... Miki, who is leaving this study in Israel and Algeria, went back to medical school after working several years in business and after having two children. summer Dr. Joyce Henrie, psychiatrist, checks over records at her home office. In Utah, for instance. Assn. And more women are coming into practice. "We lie in a fic-plwith my mother and my sisters and their families. They were always there to take care of my two children while I was at work." And she ha.-- continued to practice all the time. "I delivered a baby at 440 a. m. the same morning my son was born at 8:23 am. This is not unusual among women doctors " in helping people. In 1849, when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from a medical school in the USA, feminine were physicians about as popular as a case of red measles. There are about 31 practicing women doctors in the state, said Mrs Maxine Fry of the Utah State Medical tors. anyone who wants to he a doctor. It is a strenuous field, it's demanding, it requires dedication. she added. serifs. hae Dr. Toshiko Toyota thinks she has probably had it easier than many women doc- "There are so many opportunities; there's a place for 849 Today, almost 29,000 of the countrys 300.000 physicians are women (a percentage that puts this country behind all other nations except Spain, Madagascar and South Vietnam), and more and more women are being encouraged to become doctors. good manager and may to make sacrifices. Where once women doc- tors stuck pretty much to pediatrics and gynecology, now they are represented in most of the specialties, said Mrs. Fry. What is it about medicine that attracts women? science, I enjoy people. Medicine is a good combination," explained Mar I enjoy to I guess I have two major she prejudices against me, said, my age and my sex. But I cant do anything about I hope that. people will accept me as a human being, not as just a mother, just a woman or iust a doctor. The woman chooses to combine medicine with marriage and family must be a pre-me- This school was founded back in the days when women were new in the field of med ieine. For many years it was the only school that would admit women. When Dr. Toyota graduated in 1944. there were about twenty in her class. (The government recently required the school to admit male students.) Dr. Toyota is in general of Most her practice. patients, she says, are women and children. And many have told her they feel better able to talk to another woman about their problems. Dr. Joyce Henrie, psychiafeels that patients of trist, quit wearing a white coat," said Dr. Toshiko Toyota, children saw it and cried." Little Cynthia Kang is proof both sexes respond well to a person with natural empathy. Our culture often fosters the development of this empathy in women, she said. But it takes more than empathy to be a successful doctor. DEAR ABBY: Concerning that woman in Twin Falls, who comwrote Idaho, plaining that no doctors in that town would deliver her baby without full payment in advance: she said a neighbor of hers who had been seeing a doctor all along suddenly found that he refused to deliver until he was paid in full. I was a bit surprised that 'she hadnt gone to the news- paper. A newspaper is the public Each doctor the towm should be contacted by a reporter and his story put into in print, That woman should camp on the managing editors desk until he puts one or more competent reporters on the story, and either proves her wrong or exposes the situation for what it is. This is the obligation of the paper to the community. AN. In this action it is likely that one or more will turn up watchdog. It is the obligation that do not subscribe to the of newsmen to bark when the mercenary policy described. general welfare of the public What is our is endangered. Sounds like a weak bunch of money-hungrnewsmen up there who are afraid to let anything in their paper that may make an advertiser unhappy. The advertisers then become the controlling element of the press. y to themselves call right newsmen. They lack commitment to the profession and to the public they serve. They are an insult to the professionals in the field. society coming to if money, or the lack of it, determines if you have the right to live or die? Nowadays, the colleges that give these doctors their education and the hospitals in which they get their, experience are largely supported by our tax dollar. If the newsmen in the area This situation should be lack the intestinal fortitude to fully covered in stories and get this story in and get it in editorials. accurately, they have no SCHOOL OLD MANAGING EDITOR Hold it! The in Twin Falls did exactly that. With no prompting from me or anyone else. DEAR OLD: TIMES-NEW- this state, a years old by eligible for September of child who is 5 Jan. 1, 1974, is kindergarten in 1973. Im afraid if we start Ronny in kindergarten in September he will not only be the youngest, but the smallest child in his class. bright, but his are both small, and Ronny is very small for his age. He is very father and I you think he will feel handicapped if he's the shortest boy in his class? we hinks My husband should wait a year. Then Ronny will have an extra year to grow, and maybe he wont be so much smaller than his classmates. Do do What you RONNYS MOM DEAR MOM: Let school with his His mental growth important than his growth. start of how it high and Married to an orthopedic surgeon, mother of four chil- dren. Dr. Henrie has successfully combined marriage and cur- her career. said pri- that care. into Go advise? have ing Ronney friends. is more physical a it because you real interest others, a in servdedication to science and medicine, and an unfailing willingness to work hard. ; Being married to a doctor, We! she says, has helped. each understand the other's obligations and commitments. We both have an equal com-- , mitmer.t to serving people, a dedication to medicine and a marriage based on a loving partnership. career. And stop making an issue small he is. It may not occur to Ronny to feel handicapped because of his size unless you suggest it. One problem is that all of his playmates in the neighborhood will be starting kindergarten this September and he wants to start, too. The important thing, is to focus Dr. Henrie, on to dedication marily quality medical care have genuine concern for rent methods to improve At present tiiere seems to be an increasing need for women in medicine. continued the doctor. And she has some advice for women considering this field as a Oppressed? Try the power of the press By Abigail Van Boren because was a good idea. I ; She worked part-timw hile the children were small and full time when they were older. e Its challenging Dr. Henrie received her medical degree at the University of Utah and specialized at the Mayo Clinic. Both centers provided excellent training opportunities, she said. "My sex was no barrier at all. rewarding. DEAR ABBY: Our son, Ronny, will be 5 on Dec. 27, 1973. According to the laws of today through Sunday 80th BIRTHDAY ATTENTION Fnends and relative of Viola Bak Paxton. There will bean open house on Sat.. April 21. 1973 from 2 to 8 p m. at 942 E. 4tn South, Salt Lake City, in honor of her 8hfh birthday. 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