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Stephenson, Bette - Interview

Item number (ISN):

435908

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-08-25

Item number (ISN):

435908

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION / ASSOCIATION MÉDICALE CANADIENNE

Accession:

1982-0255

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-08-25

Production company:

Canadian Medical Association

Production credit:

interviewer, A.M. Nicholson

Description:

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Interview of Dr. Bette Stephenson, president of the Canadian Medical Association from 1974 to 1975. She talks about: her childhood; her grandparents; her education; her recollections of the family doctor, Dr. Devins, and his wife, who was also a physician; her decision, when still a child, that she wanted to become a doctor; her family's move to Willowdale when she was five; her medical education at the University of Toronto; her joining the army; serving as a junior intern at Women's College Hospital from 1944 until January 1946; Dr. Marion Hillard; her colleagues Patsy Wilford and Margaret Ray Brander; her internship at the Western Hospital; radiology; Dr. Elizabeth Stuart; working for her family physician, Doug McAteer, in Willowdale, circa 1947 and 1948; obstetrics; her marriage to Allan Pengelly in 1948; the start of her medical practice in Willowdale; her children; her husband's medical practice; her work at a prenatal clinic at Women's College Hospital starting in 1949; teaching obstetrics at Women's College Hospital; the development of a department of family medicine at Women's College Hospital; her appointment as chair of the department; her involvement with the College of Family Physicians of Canada; the status of the general practitioner; her election in 1959 as president of the Medical Advisory Committee and president of the medical staff at Women's College Hospital; the decision of the hospital to hire male doctors as well as female doctors; her work for the Ontario Medical Association; exhibitions held by the OMA; her election to the OMA board of directors; becoming chair of the board of the OMA in 1967; the Special Committee on the Healing Arts created by the Ontario government in 1966-1967; the OMA's involvement in the deliberations of this committee; her election as president of the OMA; levels of remuneration for physicians; joining the board of the Canadian Medical Association in 1968; her work with the CMA until 1976; the treatment and role of women doctors; early childhood education; maternal and child welfare; the OMA's role in most of the public health legislation in Ontario; her production of a weekly CBC radio series on early childhood education called The First Five Years; Ruth Hazlett; Dodi Robb; her trip to China as a member of a medical delegration; the medical profession in China; women in medical school in China; health care advances in China; her work with the World Medical Association; trips to Sweden and Russia as part of the World Medical Association; her husband's career; the need to change the Criminal Code to ensure that changes in legislation enable women to receive legal abortions; her appointment to the Taks Force on Medical Services in Ontario; and her work with Fraser Mustard, Duncan Gordon and others to develop the Mustard Report.

Language:

English

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1. List of interviews in collection file dates this interview 25 August 1975 but transcript in file dates this 25 August 1976.
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MSS 24323

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