Dr. Margaret Chung

Margaret Chung (1889-1959)

"There were no Chinese doctors practicing American medicine in Chinatown, and I saw a great future there... But my first years were disheartening... The older generation still believed in Chinese herbs, and the younger generation would go to white physicians.”

• First Chinese American woman physician
• In the 1920s, she founded one of the first Western medical clinics in Chinatown in San Francisco
• Was instrumental in forming the WAVES—Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency—during World War II

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