1. Nancy Lee Caroline was an American-Israeli physician and writer who worked in emergency medical services.
16 Facts About Nancy Caroline
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Nancy Caroline was medical director of Freedom House, an emergency ambulance service that assisted underserved populations in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Nancy Caroline was the first medical director of Magen David Adom, Israel's Red Cross Society, and was later called "Israel's Mother Teresa" by colleagues.
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Nancy Lee Caroline was born on June 27,1944, in Newton, Massachusetts, to Leo and Zelda Caroline.
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From a young age, Nancy had a strong social conscience and a strong sense of her identity as a Jewish person.
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Nancy Caroline began her medical career while still a teenager, working as a photographer and lab worker at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Nancy Caroline stayed in Cleveland to complete her residencies, and then began a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 1973.
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Nancy Caroline wrote Emergency Care in the Streets, a textbook which was the first of its kind for paramedic training.
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Since her childhood, her identity as a Jewish person was of great importance to Nancy Caroline, and shaped many of her actions and choices throughout her life.
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Nancy Caroline relocated to Kenya in 1982 to become Senior Medical Officer of the African Medical and Research Foundation in Nairobi.
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Nancy Caroline conducted medical classes for health workers throughout the region and wrote a weekly health column for the Kenyan newspaper The Standard entitled "Ask Dr AMREF".
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Nancy Caroline worked extensively with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to provide better health care and nutrition in over 600 orphanages.
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Nancy Caroline set up a non-profit organization, Agro-Africa Limited, the purpose of which is to set up small scale agricultural projects to ameliorate Kenya's massive droughts and help its victims.
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Nancy Caroline remained an adjunct visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh's medical school and, on a volunteer basis, as a physician and medical adviser of Magen David Adom, the Oncology Department of Sheba Medical Center, and the Tel Hashomer Hospice.
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Nancy Caroline was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and was cared for at the Hospice center she founded.
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Nancy Caroline died of multiple myeloma on December 12,2002, at home in Metula, Israel, and was buried in her native Boston.