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| KAREN: Okay. Let's see how yours is working. You have to say something. DR. PARK: Okay. Well, I don't know whether you've got it recorded, I came up here in 1957. KAREN: Okay. DR. PARK: And graduated from medical school in 1955. Did the old-fashioned general family medicine. Well, they didn't even use that term, the general -- the old-fashioned general internship in Colorado. KAREN: Okay. Let me just interrupt with a little intro of who you are. And I'm Karen Brewster, and I'm here with Gloria Park in her home in Anchorage. It's August 25th, 2005, and this is for the Community Health Aide Project. So we have you, medical school 1955? DR. PARK: Uh-hum (affirmative). And -- KAREN: In Colorado? DR. PARK: Yeah. And a general internship in Colorado. KAREN: Okay. And where and when were you born? DR. PARK: 4/13/30 in Washington State. KAREN: Okay. Why did you decide to go to medical school? DR. PARK: Oh, decided about -- about age 10. I've tried to track it back as close as I can get it that I was interested. Some of that might be due -- I know it was due to reading the books. I can't -- I can't think of the big old -- the Mayo Clinic, founded by the Mayo brothers. And I read those two biographies. And got more and more interested. And -- and then my grandparents had chronic problems, and I helped a little bit taking care of them. So all of this kind of led to it, I think. KAREN: Was it common for women to be in medical school at that time period? DR. PARK: No. Usually medical schools had two or three in a class, and I actually ended up in a class, I think there were eight of us, which was a little more than usual. KAREN: Uh-hum. Was that difficult? DR. PARK: No, I don't -- I think we just -- I, anyway, just went to school thinking that was what I wanted to do and I didn't worry about what the reasons were. And had no problem through medical school, that I know of, that was based on male-female ratio. KAREN: Okay. So in 1955, you were in Colorado? DR. PARK: Yeah. I -- I spent one year at the University of Washington Medical School, as I transferred out of the Pullman Washington State University to medical school. And in the meantime, had met Orlo at Washington State University. So he went into a government job in Washington D.C., and I went to Seattle. And we -- we decided we had to figure out how to get together, so he transferred to Boulder, Colorado, and I transferred to the University of Colorado Medical School from Seattle. KAREN: Okay. And when were you two married? DR. PARK: '52. KAREN: And did you -- so in medical school, did you have a specialty? Or in your internship or -- I don't know exactly how it all works. DR. PARK: No, actually -- actually, at that time there were hardly any so-called specialties. It was all pretty general. And, of course, surgery and -- well, let's see. Surgery and OB and eye and ENT developed. And I can't tell you the order. Orthopedics. I think in internal medicine. Neurology. Neurosurgeon. Anyway, not near the number of specialties that there are now. KAREN: Right. DR. PARK: So... | |
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