Emily Barringer

Emily Dunning Barringer was the first woman to become an ambulance surgeon; there have been books about her and a movie about her residency and her hard work on becoming an ambulance surgeon. 
Women like Barringer and others who wanted to enter into the medical field, they were not allowed to even be in the profession. It was once thought that there were certain professions that women could not even work in; the medical profession was definitely not allowed. Even though women could not work as doctors or nurses there was one profession that was excuslively for women was being midwives.

It was not until 1848, that woman decided to change this ordeal; this woman was Elizabeth Blackwell; she had entered into Geneva College in Seneca Falls New York; at first the adminsitration at the college had just admitted her as a joke but at graduation, she had graduated at the top of her class. After that other women wanted to become surgeons. 

Emily Barringer became a surgeon, but her work was still not finished; it was during her work as a surgeon that the first car was created and hospitals needed some type of a vehicle so that surgeons could be able to reach to the patients faster. At this time people were still getting to the hospitals by horse and buggy but now that there was a motorized car, that was when the ambulance was created. However, there was still problems that Barringer and other surgeons had faced, basically how to get to the patients that need a doctor right a way or have to get to the hospital right away. Barringer was the first woman to become a surgeon on an ambulance.

In 1952, MGM had produced a movie based on Emily Barringer's biography.  The movie starred June Allyson and Arthur Kennedy; the movie was called The Girl in White.