The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3415: Dorothea Erxleben
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3415: Dorothea Erxleben

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20263 min

Episode: 3415 Germany’s first woman doctor has some hard advice for her fellow doctors. Today, a new look at Dorothea Erxleben.

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Today, a new look at Dorothea Erxleben. The University of Houston presents this series

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This programming is sponsored by St. Luke's Health is becoming Common Spirit. While our name is changing, the care you know isn't. Expanding our collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, we're bringing innovative expert health care closer to you.

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Learn more at commonspirit.org slash stlukeshealth. This is the engines of our ingenuity made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today, a new look at Dorothea Erxleben. The University of Houston presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created

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them. Years ago I did an episode about one Dorothea Erxleben, born in 1715, Germany's first woman doctor, the daughter of a doctor, she'd followed her brother to medical school in Hala. She a woman couldn't graduate, but she studied right along with him.

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