Rebecca Lee Dorsey
Rebecca Lee Dorsey (August 30, 1859March 29, 1954) U.S. physician and endocrinology expert.

Dorsey was a pioneer and is known as the world's first female endocrinologist and the first woman physician to practice in Los Angeles.

Dorsey attended Wellesley College and was the first graduate to earn a medical degree when she attended Boston University graduating in June 1882, she then traveled to Europe to study under Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister, returning to Los Angeles in 1886. Dorsey established her own medical practice and specialised on obstetrics, pediatrics, and, later, endocrinology, and she was said to have been the attending physician at over 4,000 births during her lifetime and administered the first diphtheria inoculation in Los Angeles about 1893.

Dorsey practice medicine for 60 years and then retired and established the first date farm in California.
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