by Anupama Gugnani Verma | Feb 3, 2019 | Feature, Inspire, Uncategorized
“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.” These are the words of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. By doing so on January 23rd 1849,...by Anupama Gugnani Verma | Aug 8, 2018 | Be the Change
It was my final year in medical school. In less than a month, my classmates and I would be graduating from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, a premier institution at that time in West Africa. We would be graduating with an M.D. degree as doctors. Fortunately, a...