Milica Šviglin Čavov was the first

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n female doctor. She graduated from the Medical School in

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in 1893, but was not allowed to work in Croatia. Her first job was in a health resort in Germany. She married a Bulgarian doctor, Bogdan Chavov, and moved to Bulgaria and opened a private practice with her husband.

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