Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D., with Author & Historian Susan Wilson

In a world overwhelmingly dominated by male doctors, Susan Dimock was a 19th century trailblazer: as Resident Physician of a unique Boston hospital where women doctors treated women patients, Dr. Dimock executed complex surgeries, trained America’s first professional nurses, and became one of the most beloved physicians in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Dimock’s life tale, intertwined with the Civil War and the fight for women’s rights, reads like an adventure story, ably told by her biographer Susan Wilson in this riveting PowerPoint lecture.

Susan Wilson is the official House Historian of the Omni Parker House in Boston, an Alumna Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center of Brandeis University, and an Honorary Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.  She is the author of Women and Children First: The Trailblazing Life of Susan Dimock, M.D. published in 2023.

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