Dr. Gail Weingast

Whereas many medical professionals are led by a calling to their ultimate position, that was not necessarily the case for Dr. Gail Weingast. In fact, when she commenced her education in 1969, Gail attended Tufts University’s Jackson College, where she proceeded to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. Not pre-med, but Spanish. Whatever the case, she changed her mind, because she was soon matriculating at the Boston University School of Medicine, where she officially became Dr. Gail Weingast MD in 1976. At Colorado General Hospital in Denver after medical school, Dr. Gail Weingast completed a pediatrics internship in...

These days, Dr. Gail Weingast is perhaps best known as a highly regarded radiology specialist at William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, where she is the Chief of Ultrasound and Breast Imaging. Of course, her path to her current position wasn’t always a straight line. For example, her education began in 1969, when she attended Jackson College, Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Spanish. That seems to suggest that Gail didn’t always want to be a doctor, but who knows. If that assumption was correct, though, it wouldn’t be long before her decision to...