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March 2, 2026 - Susan Wilson on Susan Dimock M.D., Creative Sector Day, and "Resistance" at the New Bedford Art Museum
In the late 1860s, Susan Dimock defied barriers that kept women out of medicine, earning her degree in Zurich after being rejected by Harvard Medical School and returning to Boston as a pioneering surgeon. Before her life was cut short in a shipwreck at 28, she helped reshape medical care for women and founded one of the nation’s first professional nursing training programs. Historian Susan Wilson joins us to discuss her biography, “Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D.” You can catch Susan Wilson for an author talk at the Jamaica Plain Branch of the Boston…
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