Gurnell, Kathy Scott

This is an oral history interview with Kathy Scott Gurnell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Kathy Scott-Gurnell was born in Houston, went to college at UT in Austin, then followed with medical school at UTMB in Galveston. She did her residency and pediatrics internship at UT Medical School in Houston, and eventually shifted disciplines to work as a child psychiatrist. She talks about African Americans working twice as hard both in school and in their professional lives. Dr. Scott-Gurnell also discusses her experiences as an African American physician, and contributions she made to the medical field