| LC control no. | n 2004008849 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Chung, Margaret, 1889-1959 |
| Variant(s) | Chung, Mom, 1889-1959 Chung, Margaret (Physician) |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0000 3735 6052 9233234 Q4793511 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Los Angeles (Calif.) San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1889-10-02 |
| Death date | 1959-01-05 |
| Place of birth | Santa Barbara (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Chinese Hospital (San Francisco, Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians Surgeons |
| Found in | Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun. Doctor Mom Chung of the fair-haired bastards, 2005: ECIP data view t.p. (Doctor Margaret Chung, 1889-1959, first known Chinese-American woman physician) New York times, 19 Sept. 2023: in an obituary in the "Overlooked" series on page A25 (Margaret Chung; born Margaret Jessie Chung on Oct. 2, 1889 in Santa Barbara, Calif., died Jan. 5, 1959, aged 69; first known American woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a medical degree; after she graduated and was rejected as a medical missionary, Chung turned to surgery, performing trauma operations at Santa Fe Railroad Hospital in Los Angeles; while accompanying two patients to San Francisco, Chung fell in love with the city's landscape. After learning that no doctor practiced Western medicine in the city's Chinatown, she left her Los Angeles practice and set up a clinic on Sacramento Street in 1922; years of planning and community fund-raising culminated in the opening of San Francisco's Chinese Hospital in 1925 -- Chung became one of four department heads at the hospital while still running her private practice) |
| Associated language | eng |
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