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This Women's History Month, we're honoring five Connecticut women healthcare pioneers who broke barriers in medicine and public health. Meet Joyce Yerwood, the first Black female doctor in Fairfield County; Annie Keeler Bailey, Danbury's first trained woman physician; Ann Petry, the first Black woman to graduate from the Connecticut College of Pharmacy; Emily Dunning Barringer, New York City's first female ambulance surgeon; and Hilda Crosby Standish, a champion of reproducti