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Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon
Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon

Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon

Date11/12/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dr. Beverly Walters, a former opera writer, has put in 10 arduous years of training while raising a family, to become Toronto's first woman neurosurgeon.
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A medical first was performed by Dr. William Lougheed, a neurosurgeon and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, when he took vein from a woman's leg and transplanted it into her head to replace a blocked artery that caused a stroke. He's shown with the type of microscope used in surgery.
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