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The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out

The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out

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A Japanese American doctor is forced into an internment camp, where the US government demands she deliver babies in a converted horse racetrack.

The Prison Doctor Who Delivered Fifty Babies and Stayed When Ordered Out

This episode explores the extraordinary life of Dr. Kazue Togasaki, a Japanese American physician who delivered fifty babies in a World War II internment camp. It examines the contradictions of her situation and the resilience that defined her path in medicine.

Person: Kazue Togasaki
Date: June 29, 1897 (birth)
Location: Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California
Event: World War II internment

- Kazue Togasaki was born in San Bruno in 1897, the eldest of nine children in a Japanese immigrant family.
- At age nine, she translated for Japanese immigrant women in a makeshift hospital after the 1906 San Bruno earthquake.
- Despite racial segregation in schools and discrimination in hospital employment, she earned a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Stanford in 1920.
- She then became a registered nurse in 1924 and pursued a public health degree in 1927.
- In 1933, at 35, she earned her medical degree from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, becoming one of the earliest Japanese American women to do so.

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