https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/09/the-score
This is linked in OP, but gives very slightly more detail around how the score was actually popularized, and what Apgar's career looked like. (Plot twist, she wasn't "just" a practicing anesthesiologist, but the founder and head of a whole new Anesthesiology dept. at Columbia) I think the short version is that she published a paper in 1953, and managed to get obstetricians using the scale in a competitive spirit, but I am still curious about how it was marketed (just publishing a paper is rarely enough to get something publicized, afaik).
She also carried around a scalpel and tubing for giving passers-by emergency airways (tracheotomy?), and apparently did so over a dozen times.
She also carried around a scalpel and tubing for giving passers-by emergency airways (tracheotomy?), and apparently did so over a dozen times.