Emily Barringer was the first woman to become an ambulance surgeon, there have been many books to including her own autobiography, there has also been a movie about her life, which included her residency, and her hard work on becoming an ambulance surgeon.
Emily Barringer and other women who wanted to enter into the medical field, however they were not allowed to even enter into the profession. The reason for this was because the medical field was considered unfit for a woman; the medical field was one of those professions that women were not allowed to even get into. However, even though women could not become doctors or even enter into the medical field, but women could become midwives.
Although this actually changes in 1848, when one changed the odds; this woman was Elizabeth Blackwell. Elizabeth Blackwell had entered into the Geneva College was a medical school. At first she was admitted into the school as a joke, but when she graduated, she was at the top of her class. After her, other women wanted to become doctors and surgeons.
Emily Barringer had become a surgeon, however her work was still not finished. It was actually during her work as a surgeon, that the first car had been created, and the hospitals needed a quicker way to get to the people that needed help, or had to get to the hospital. However, at this time, patients were still getting to the hospital by horse and buggy, then the car was created, and then the ambulance was also created; but there was still a problem that Barringer and the other surgeons had faced and that was how to get to the patients that needed a doctor right away or if they had to get to the hospital. Emily Barringer was assigned to the ambulance and became the first woman to be a surgeon on the ambulance.
In 1952, MGM had produced a movie based on Emily Barringer's autobiography; the movie had starred June Allyson and Arthur Kennedy the movie was called The Girl in White 
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