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Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark, MD — pediatric medicine

Courtesy Leila Alice Daughtry Denmark, MD

When she retired in 2001, Dr. Leila Daughtry Denmark (1898–2012) was America’s oldest known practicing physician. She was one of the first woman pediatricians in Atlanta, and had been seeing patients and advising parents for more than 70 years. Her remarkable career has been reported locally and in the national news, and in 1998, when she was 100 years old, her ongoing work was featured in a profile in People magazine.

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