Loy McAfee, MD — administration (government), surgery
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Dr. Loy McAfee (1868–1941) served as a contract surgeon with the surgeon general’s office of the U.S. Army during World War I. She worked on a comprehensive, multivolume history of wartime medicine. At the time, although women physicians were barred from serving in the Army Medical Reserve Corps and, thus, denied benefits equal to those of men, they were still required to wear uniforms and conform to the same standards of conduct.
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