Education
She graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1904.
She graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1904.
She then did postgraduate work at the Mayo Clinic, served an internship at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston, and entered general practice with another female doctor in San Antonio. In 1925, Doctor Potter presented the paper "Insulin-Glucose in the Prevention of Postanesthetic Vomiting" at the fourth annual meeting of the Southern Association of Anesthetists, describing the success of her trial use of insulin-glucose to counteract vomiting due to anesthetics used during surgery. The paper was published in the April 1926 Journal of Anesthesia and Analgesia.
Doctor Potter cofounded the Texas Society of Anesthesiologists, which she was president of in the late 1940s.
She retired in 1947.
In 1961, she was chosen as an honorary member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.