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About Louise Isachsen
- Gusta Louise Isachsen (11 December 1875 – 11 March 1932) was a Norwegian physician.
- She was the country's first female surgeon.She was born in Drøbak as a daughter of ship captain Nils Høgh Isachsen (1838–1913) and Cecilie Marie Sivertsen (1839–1909).
- She was a sister of polar researcher Gunnar Isachsen.
- After attending Ragna Nielsen's School from 1891 to 1893 she took her examen artium at Gjertsen School.
- She enrolled in medicine studies at the Royal Frederick University, at a time when this was still highly unusual for women, and graduated with the cand.med.
- degree in 1900.She was a medical candidate at Rikshospitalet and Kristiania Municipal Hospital from 1901 to 1902 (together with fellow pioneer Kristine Munch), became interested in women's diseases and studied gynecology in Edinburgh in 1902.
- Munch accompanied her, but studied different subjects.
- From 1903 Munch and Isachsen were running their own clinic in Kristiania.
- From 1908 to 1911 Isachsen was an assistant of Norway's first gynecologist Emil Rode, and studied gynecology abroad again in 1909, this time in Giessen and Berlin.
- From 1910 to 1927 she was an assistant of birth doctor Christian Kielland in Kristiania, running the clinic during his numerous stays abroad.
- She was also a surgeon at Our Lady's Hospital from 1912, after four years as a surgery assistant.
- Between 1919 and 1931 she conducted several study trips to the United States, Germany, France, Austria and Sweden.Isachsen was a co-founder of three organizations for women: the Women Students' Choral Society (1895), the Women Students' Christian Association (1897) and the Medical Women's Association (1921).
- She was a board member of the convalescence institution Godthaab from 1922.
- She was active in the contemporary debate regarding abortus provocatus, and held numerous public speeches, lectures and courses on hygiene and related subjects.She did not marry.
- She died in March 1932 in Oslo from breast cancer.
- A memorial stone was raised at her grave in 1933.
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