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From Pioneers to a Pipeline: Women of New York Orthopaedic Hospital and Columbia Orthopedics
Written by: William N. Levine, MD
Frank E. Stinchfield Professor and Chair
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
In the spring of 1944, Allied casualties from the battle of Monte Cassino poured into a British military hospital in Pompeii. Among the surgeons working nearly around the clock was an American orthopedic surgeon from Columbia named Barbara Bartlett Stimson, MD.