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Marcia Angell, MD — diagnostic and therapeutic services (pathology)

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In 1999, Dr. Marcia Angell (b. 1939) became the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, the premier journal of medical science in the United States. She is also committed to broadening the public’s understanding of science and has written for a general audience on the relationships between medicine, ethics, and the law.

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