Sara Bendahan
Venezuelan physician (1900-1946)
Sara Rosa M. Bendahan (1906–1946) was a physician and the second Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in that country. She was born in Guatire in February 1906, and her parents were Moroccan Jewish immigrants.
Biography
In September 1924 she began studying at the Central University of Venezuela. In her third year of studying medicine she suffered from pulmonary tuberculosis and went to Los Teques to recover, but did not stop studying and passed her third year (of six) exams. However, due to the deaths of family and friends she initially left medical school without graduating, needing only to complete her thesis and examination.
She did this and graduated as a doctor on July 31, 1939, from Central University of Venezuela. She was appointed by her graduating classmates to give the speech at the ceremony where she was awarded the title, Doctor of Medical Sciences, becoming the first Venezuelan woman to earn that degree in her country. In that speech she asked:"What else is needed to not smile happily even at this victory? Not that pride takes over my spirit, oh no! And I consider it as a scientific triumph, but rather as an extraordinary triumph over the environment, prejudice, envy, the circumstances that have surrounded me, my poor state of health and therefore death, the time that has passed since the completion of my studies, etc., etc.
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