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Dr. Kathleen T. O’Shea, 74, dermatologist when few women were in field

By Kathleen McKenna

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 22, 2012

Dr. Kathleen T. O’Shea went to medical school when women made up a small percentage of aspiring physicians, and she chose to specialize in dermatology, a field more popular now than it was then. She remained a pioneer through much of her career. Dr. Leslie Lucchina, a Boston dermatologist, said that when she first met Dr. O’Shea at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1992, among dermatologists “she was always the only woman on the grand rounds. There were virtually no women doctors in her age group.’’

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