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Dr. Denmark, from childhood on a rural Bulloch County, Georgia farm, always wanted to heal and help, attending to baby chickens or an injured bull calf. After graduation from Bessie Tift College in 1922 and two years of teaching high school science, she applied to medical school and was admitted to the freshman class of the Medical College of the University of Georgia in the fall of 1924, the only woman in her class. She graduated in 1928, married that same year, and moved to Atlanta where she soon became the first intern at the brand new Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children. She admitted the first patient to that hospital, now called Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Following the birth of her daughter, Mary, in 1930, she opened a private practice of pediatrics in an office in her home; and for the next 71 years she saw her patients in an office connected to her house, first in Atlanta, next in Sandy Springs, and finally in rural Forsyth County, Georgia.
Dr. Denmark always felt, however, that the best rewards she ever received were seeing children – sometimes neglected and undernourished – blossom into happy, healthy boys and girls when parents really understood what they as parents needed to do to effect such changes. As Dr. Denmark reached her late 80s and early 90s, she was increasingly sought out by television and print media, but she never went looking for publicity nor interviews. In contrast, however, Dr. Denmark never hesitated to talk at whatever length with a parent of a child who needed help.

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