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Article: A pair deals seven of a kind: educational preparation and poise result in historic delivery. (Black female physicians participate in delivery and media coverage of septuplets)
- Article from:
- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- December 11, 1997
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Des Moines, Iowa - You could feel the surprise and excitement. Not just because medical history had been made with the birth of the first known surviving septuplets, but because of the people who sat down behind the two desk signs -- "Dr. Paula Mahone" and "Dr. Karen Drake."
Not only were the two medical celebrities women, they were African-Americans. And they weren't in New York or Washington or Boston. They were in Des Moines, Iowa.
At a news conference at Des Moines' Iowa Methodist Medical Center, a couple of hundred national and local media representatives sat in a small auditorium watching doctors and hospital officials seat themselves at a long ...
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