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James G. Ravin, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:1845-1848.

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The recent increase in the number of women in ophthalmology has been accompanied by a historical interest in female physicians as role models. Important questions arise in this search: How did these women achieve their positions? What obstacles did they have to overcome? How did their families, colleagues, and patients perceive them? What were their contributions to the field? One means of understanding how these concerns have been resolved successfully is to examine the career of an individual who performed particluarly well.

In France, Suzanne Schiff-Wertheimer, MD (1895-1958) (Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, and Figure 4 stands out.^1-5 She is remembered as a brilliant, charming ophthalmologist who was a pioneer in modern techniques of retinal detachment repair. She was a native of Lyons, the third most populous city in France. Her family was bourgeois, but certainly not wealthy. During the early . . . [Full Text of this Article]

From the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo.