Draft:Pat Sparrow

Pat Sparrow is an Australian nurse who worked at the now nonexistent Crown Street Women's Hospital in Sydney. She is known for her efforts in the discovery that thalidomide, a drug that was used as a treatment for morning sickness in pregnant women in the 1950s and 60s, was responsible for birth defects.

It has been alleged that, although Ms Sparrow first made the connection between the rise in birth defects at the hospital and use of thalidomide, Dr William McBride subsequently took most of the credit.