Stephen Louis Kopecky, MD: A Conversation With the Editor

For the first 10 to 15 years on the Mayo Clinic staff, Dr. Kopecky was an interventionalist in the cardiac catheterization laboratory and also staffed the coronary care unit. Both parents graduated from the University of Texas Medical School at Galveston, my father in 1934 and my mother in 1937. The medical school dean thought that women should not be in medicine. [...]she worked in free clinics, other clinics, summer camps, so she had time to be more of a “stay-at-home” mother, which I thought was delightful.