Dr. Priscilla Dienes Taft

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Dr. Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85

Pathologist, lecturer

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r. Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85, who fulfilled her ambition to become a doctor despite tuberculosis, a terrible car accident, and rejection from Harvard Medical School because of her gender, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center.

A Hungarian immigrant who graduated from Radcliffe College, Dr. Taft was inspired by her father to earn a medical degree at Yale Medical School.After additional training, she became a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital, and she delivered lectures on cytology at the school that didn't admit its first woman until a year after she became a physician.

The daughter of Marian Jakubek Dienes and Louis Dienes, a bacteriologist, Dr. Taft was born in Budapest.
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Dr. Taft graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1944, five years before the first women - a group of 12 - graduated from Harvard Medical School.

While at medical school she contracted tuberculosis, "an occupational hazard for doctors that might have meant the end of her medical career," her brother-in-law John Taft of Brewster said yesterday.

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Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85, who fulfilled her ambition to become a doctor despite tuberculosis, a terrible car accident, and rejection from Harvard Medical School because of her gender, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center.,7,Pathologist, lecturer,,B,Dr.Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85,11/28/2002,By Tom Long, Globe Staff,>," name=HideFromBrowserForVerity> >
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Dr. Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85

Pathologist, lecturer

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r. Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85, who fulfilled her ambition to become a doctor despite tuberculosis, a terrible car accident, and rejection from Harvard Medical School because of her gender, died Saturday at Berkshire Medical Center.

A Hungarian immigrant who graduated from Radcliffe College, Dr. Taft was inspired by her father to earn a medical degree at Yale Medical School.After additional training, she became a pathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital, and she delivered lectures on cytology at the school that didn't admit its first woman until a year after she became a physician.

The daughter of Marian Jakubek Dienes and Louis Dienes, a bacteriologist, Dr. Taft was born in Budapest.
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Dr. Taft graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1944, five years before the first women - a group of 12 - graduated from Harvard Medical School.

While at medical school she contracted tuberculosis, "an occupational hazard for doctors that might have meant the end of her medical career," her brother-in-law John Taft of Brewster said yesterday.

Dr. Priscilla Dienes Taft, 85 - Boston Globe

Priscilla D. Taft '38, a doctor who lectured at Harvard Medical School despite being turned down for admission into its program as a Radcliffe undergraduate because of her gender, died Nov. 23 at Berkshire Medical Center.She was 85.

Taft overcame obstacles such as a bout with tuberculosis and a car accident to become head of the cytology laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard teaching hospital.