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Hall, Harriet A.
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United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
Medicine, Military
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women
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Hall, Harriet A.
United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
Medicine, Military
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women
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Women aren't supposed to fly : the memoirs of a female flight surgeon / Harriet A. Hall.
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Hall, Harriet A.
iUniverse, c2008.
Call #:
358
.40092
H174w
Subjects
United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
Medicine, Military
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women
ISBN:
9780595499588 (trade pbk.)
0595499589 (trade pbk.)
Description:
xii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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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