Opinion: Bette Catoe Strudwick: Medicine Was Once About Just Saving Lives, Not Money, By Bunmi Fatoye-Matory
Now, it’s more of a business. Doctors felt it was a calling back then, to save patients. Now, it’s how much money people can make.
After I got married, they took away my scholarship because married women were not supposed to be in medical school. I persisted. I was interested in research. I found the growth rate of black babies and toddlers was lower than that of whites, even at the same socioeconomic level, but Dr. Roland Scott, the Head of Department, wanted me to study sickle cell.
I met my husband in medical school. He had just returned from World War II. He served in the Marines Officer Training School. He was in Engineering. The supervisor there said he should sign up for another four years, but my husband didn’t see too many opportunities there to grow as a black man. He resigned and went to Howard Medical School. We got married at the end of his first year and at the end of my second year in medical school.
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