This is a series of interviews regarding the history, progress, and activities of Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a not-for-profit health system serving 350,000 residents across Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.
Members of the group that founded the University of Kentucky Medical Center and Medical School discuss the construction of the medical center, key individuals recruited to build the medical center, and the obstacles in accomplishing those tasks.
This project documents perspectives and memories of women who graduated from the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine during the 1960's and early 1970s, when women doctors comprised only six to ten percent of the physician workforce.