

Launch Day for Mercy Road
About 18 months ago, I ran across the story of the American Women’s Hospital (AWH) and was surprised that I’d never heard of these brave women before. Their story is much bigger than this, but the gist of the matter is that female physicians in the US were not allowed to enter the military and serve during WWI or The Great War, as it was referred to back then. Therefore a group of women physicians joined together and formed all-female medical teams to go overseas on their o