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Local Topic This Texas doctor is only 9th Black woman pediatric surgeon in U

Local Topic This Texas doctor is only 9th Black woman pediatric surgeon in U

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by: Mars00 Active Indicator LED Icon 4 OP 
~ 3 years, 8 mos ago   May 16, '21 10:47pm  
This Texas doctor is only 9th Black woman pediatric surgeon in United States!
 
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Dr. Kanika Bowen-Jallow is breaking barriers every day.
 
According to the American Pediatric Surgical Association, she is only the ninth Black female pediatric surgeon in the United States.
 
"I honestly had never thought about it before because there are so few of us, that's always been my reality," Bowen-Jallow told Good Morning America. "You're just used to that."
 
Bowen-Jallow says the lack of Black representation is apparent in medicine. She says it took eight years of becoming a pediatric surgeon before she met a surgeon that was Black.
 
www.click2houston.co m/news/local/2021/05 /17/this-texas-docto r-is-the-only-9
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Dorothy Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 3 years, 8 mos ago   May 17, '21 12:58pm  
I bet there are not many women even white women. Joyceyln Elders was the first African American U.S. Surgeon General.
 
blog.sfgate.com/smel lthetruth/2016/01/12 /legendary-u-s-surge on-general-joyc
 
The 82 year-old pediatrician Elders came out in support of marijuana legalization in 2010.
 
Elders became Surgeon General under President Clinton and was fired by the White House after enraging conservatives with comments endorsing modern sexual education for teens, access to contraception and abortion, and reforming drug laws.
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Mars00 Active Indicator LED Icon 4 OP 
~ 3 years, 8 mos ago   May 17, '21 3:30pm  
You might be right about that.
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Michael1960 Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 3 years, 8 mos ago   May 17, '21 4:19pm  
@Mars00 : there's plenty of black doctors. They probably just don't choose Pediatrics as much.
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Mars00 Active Indicator LED Icon 4 OP 
~ 3 years, 8 mos ago   May 19, '21 4:14pm  
@Michael1960 : Yes. You might be right.
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