WOMEN IN MEDICINE

As recent as September 4, l986, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association featured an editorial entitled “The Higher Education of Women.” It explained. . .”The production of children calls for far more physiological force on the part of the mother. . The functions of gestation and maternity require a great outlay of physiological force, and if this force is used up in other work the offspring of the world must suffer, as must the woman herself.’

The A.R.E News in August of l978, contained a lead article that announced the first vice president of the American Holistic Medical Association, Dr. Norman Shealy, reported that Dr. Gladys McGarey became the first vice-president, and the first secretary, Lindsay Jacob, were both long-term cooperating physicians with the Edgar Cayce Foundation. In October of l982, the A.R.E. News announced: “The American Holistic Medical Association elected Dr. Gladys McGarey as president in its meeting at River Forest, Illinois.

When asked about the objectives of the AHMA, Dr. McGarey stated “They are to promote scientific research and education related to the health of the whole person, recognizing the importance of integrating environment, body, mind, and spirit. The reason for establishing the AHMA is to give those physicians across the country a voice in the total welfare of the patient in the medical community.”

Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey is coauthor of “The Physician Within You,” and with her daughter, also a physician, in practice at the Scottsdale Holistic Medical Group in Scottsdale, Arizona.