apgar score

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apgar score

Virginia Apgar

innovative female physician and inventor of the Apgar score
2004
Profiles a woman anesthesiologist who was a pioneer in medicine, graduating from medical school at a time when few women attended college and going on to develop the Apgar score for measuring a newborn's physical condition at birth.
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