1966 Press Photo Doctors Talk at New Orleans Medical Association Seminar

Dr. Frank O. Richards, left, supervisor of surgery at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in St. Louis, chats with Dr. Wesley N. Segre, president of the New Orleans Medical Association (NOMA), prior to the NOMA annual seminar today at Flint-Goodridge Hospital. Black physicians and their patients in New Orleans marked 1965 as a year of significant advances, the president of the New Orleans Medical Association said here today. Dr. Wesley Segre, in an interview at the NOMA's annual symposium at Flint-Goodridge Hospital pointed to: -Admission of Black physicians to Louisiana State and Orleans Parish medical societies; Admission of Black physicians to the American Medical Association which is not possible without membership in local and state societies; Opening of some private hospital facilities, which means that a wide range of diagnostic and surgical services not previously available to Black physicians and their patients is now within reach.

Photo is dated 1966.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.