Sadye Beatryce Curry, MD — internal medicine (gastroenterology), education (teaching)
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Dr. Sadye Beatryce Curry (b. 1941) is the first African American woman in the United States to become a gastroenterologist. “...at the time of my training,” she says, “it was considered to be a ‘man’s profession’ much more so than it is today. There were male physicians who expected the ‘girls’ to be out sick once a month. It was probably that type of asinine thought lingering in my mind that allowed me to work at Howard University for the last 28 years while taking just one day of sick leave.”
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