 Dorothy and her colleagues were more interested in working in medicine than in spearheading a feminist movement,
 and her diary reflected this, with some entries discussing how some female students were overly sensitive, for which she had little tolerance.Dorothy and her classmates Margaret Long and Florence Sabin were viewed as a different kind of female physician—ones who were not especially concerned with the feminist movement, but who rather cared most passionately about their work in medicine.As she continued her work in pathology, Reed taught bacteriology, assisted with autopsies, and undertook research on Hodgkin's disease.