Picotte, Susan La Flesche (1865-1915), was the first American Indian woman to become a physician. She earned an M.D. degree in 1889 from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She graduated at the top of her class.
Picotte, Susan La Flesche
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