Black Women Doctors: Dr. Sadye Beatryce Curry

Abstract

Dr. Sadye Beatryce Curry is the first African American woman in the United States to become a gastroenterologist. “…at the time of my training,” she says, “it was considered to be a ‘man’s profession’ much more so than it is today. There were male physicians who expected the ‘girls’ to be out sick once a month. It was probably that type of asinine thought lingering in my mind that allowed me to work at Howard University for the last twenty-eight years while taking just one day of sick leave.”