First Black Woman to work @ a Childerns Hospital
Dr. Tanner belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the National Medical Association, the Detroit Medical Society, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and the United Pediatric Society. Her memberships and involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Episcopal church, as well as other community and civic organizations, began immediately after Dr. Tanner's arrival in Detroit. Dr. Tanner belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the National Medical Association, the Detroit Medical Society, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and the United Pediatric Society. Her memberships and involvement with the hospital and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Episcopal church, as well as other community and civic organizations, began immediately after Dr. Tanner's arrival in Detroit. Dr. Tanner belongs to the Wayne County Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the National Medical Association, the Detroit Medical Society, the Society for Adolescent Medicine, the Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, and the United Pediatric Society. The first time I had a private patient admitted to Children's Hospital, I told the admissions office, "Now, this is a private patient. This is Dr. Tanner and I am on the attending staff. This is a private patient. This patient is to go into the private ward, not with the clinic patients." This little black, female child was sitting up there with all the white kids. They were still segregating patients, but they subsequently changed through the years. When I was first at the Children's Hospital, they would look at my records. It was as if they were waiting for me to make a mistake.