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It is such a surreal experience walking into a patient’s hospital room for the first time. After asking him or her about personal experiences and medical history, you need to […]
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AWHS Artifact of the Month: Near East Relief Effort
This highlight is part of a series to illuminate the advancement of medical women in the last century in order to show where we have been, how far we have […]
Clinic Spotlight: Clinic Nepal
Clinic Nepal supports over 50,000 people in Meghauli, Chitwan District, Nepal through different projects, holistically providing basic health care, education, livelihoods and more. Hari Bhandary, founder of Clinic Nepal, grew up […]
AWHS Clinic Spotlight: Health Care Network, Inc.
Health Care Network, Inc. is a non-profit agency that provides free-low cost health care to residents of Racine County who are medically uninsured and have a limited income. Services are provided […]
AWHS Clinic Spotlight: The Vine Trust
The Vine Trust is an international non-profit volunteering charity that provides a healthcare service for over 100,000 patients annually in Peru through two medical ships that operate along the Amazon River. […]
Artifact of the Month: House of the Good Neighbor
During World War I, the American Women’s Hospitals Service in conjunction with the Red Cross helped to establish a clinic in France for a social services home that helped children […]
Steps to Success: Obstetrics/Gynecology
How did you become interested in ob/gyn and women’s health? Initially, I wanted to be a midwife because I was fascinated by the physiologic and pathologic changes that occur during […]
Mobile Health Clinic Crosses the Jungle to Madi, Chitwan
Flying over rivers, forests and highways, Klaus and Manfred wondered what the next few days would bring. Dr Klaus Harbig (Internist) and Dr Manfred Harrmann (General Practitioner), both from Germany, […]
Stories from Marian Clinic
The Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth founded Marian Clinic in Topeka, Kansas in 1988 in order to provide medical and dental care for the uninsured who live in poverty in […]
Artifact of the Month – AWH Hospital No. 1
In 1917 the Medical Women’s National Association (which was later renamed AMWA) established a war service committee in order to create a census of the medical women in the country […]