Dr. Galich took over the family real estate business at the age of 15. which was soon confiscated by the postwar communist Yugoslav Government. In 1952. Dr. Galich graduated magna cum laude from medical school. Dr. Galich was finally able to obtain a visa and immigrate to the United States after the Yugoslav Government branded her and her family "class enemies." When she arrived in Chicago. she became the first woman at Chicago Mount Sinai Hospital to specialize in internal medicine. though only permitted to teach and not practice. Dr. Galich was the lone female physician in her 1956 class.
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