What Does Logan Contribute To Society

Myra A. Logan Myra Adele Logan helped open up society to the idea of women making huge attributions to medicine. She was born in 1908 in Tuskegee, Alabama and died in 1977 from lung cancer. Her father was a treasure at the Alabama Tuskegee and her mom was a health care activist and a suffragist. She was the first women to preform open heart surgery. She also researched antibiotics and breast cancer. Not only was she a women, but she was a black women. During this time period, not a lot of black women were treated with respect. Dr. Logan’s studies saved countless lives, even today. During her research of breast cancer, she developed a more accurate way of diagnosing tumors. The x-ray process developed by Dr. Logan, helped doctors to be able to accurately detected the differences in the density of tissue and discover tumors earlier (“Myra Adele Logan” 5). Because of this, oncologist of the time, were able to detect breast cancer earlier and treat it better. In today’s world, we still use her research to detect breast cancer and other types of cancer. She also did extensive research
Logan attended Atlanta University in Georgia, and graduated as a valedictorian in 1927(“First Women to Preform” 3). She received her Bachelors, then went to get her Masters in Psychology from Columbia University in New York. Dr. Logan won a scholarship for four years to the New York Medical college and graduated in 1933 (“Myra Adele Logan” 3). She did her residency and an internship at Harlem Hospital. After working there for some time, she became an associate surgeon and a visiting surgeon at Sydenham Hospital. She was the first African American women to be elected as a fellow of the American Collage of Surgeons. She is also a charter member of one of the first group charter practices in the nations (“Myra Adele Logan” 6). This was developed to house doctors of different professions under the same roof. She was an active member of the NAACP and she was active in Planned