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Women aren't supposed to fly : the memoirs of a female flight surgeon / Harriet A. Hall.

by Hall, Harriet A.

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iUniverse, c2008.

358.40092 H174w

United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.

Medicine, Military

United States -- Armed Forces -- Women

9780595499588 (trade pbk.)

0595499589 (trade pbk.)

xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Growing up and deciding what to be -- College -- Medical school -- Internship -- A general medical officer in Spain -- Torrejón-working in a hospital again -- Family practice residency/learning to fly -- Flight surgeon training -- Flight surgeon at a missile base -- Plattsburgh, New York -- Chief of clinic services -- Retirement.

"When Harriet Hall graduated from medical school in 1970 and entered the Air Force, she was in a distinct minority. As the second woman ever to do an Air Force internship, she had to fight for acceptance. Even a patient's 3 year old daughter proclaimed, "Oh, Daddy! That's not a doctor, that's a lady." She was refused a residency, paid less than her male counterparts, couldn't live on base, and couldn't claim her husband as a dependent because he wasn't a wife. After six years as a general medical officer in Franco's Spain, she became a family practice specialist and a flight surgeon, doing everything from delivering babies to flying a B-52. She earned her pilot's license despite being told "Women aren't supposed to fly," and eventually retired from the Air Force as a full colonel. She is witness to an era when society was beginning to accept women in traditionally male jobs but didn't entirely like the idea yet. A somewhat warped sense of humor kept her afloat, and it spices the stories she tells about her own experiences and the patients and colleagues she encountered."--Back cover

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