FIRST FEMALE PHYSICIANS IN BJELOVAR: OBSTETRICIAN AND SURGEONS

Abstract

Summary. An obstetrician and two surgeons were the first three female physicians in Bjelovar. Francisca Szümerthinn (Ringelhorn), was the first obstetrician and physician in Bjelovar, according to records on the 1803–1814 period. She was a MS in Obstetrics and Đurđevac Regiment doctor (Artis Obstetritiae Magistra et Reg. Szentvariensis Medicinae Doctoria). After more than a century, Regina Atijas, MD, was employed at Bjelovar Hospital, at first at the Department of Surgery and Gynecology, where she worked from 1930 until 1935. The third woman physician was Ljubica Bosner, MD, a surgeon, working at the Department of Surgery and Gynecology during the 1935–1942 period.