Women Doctors Need Not Starve.
The increase of women doctors in the city has been very marked lately and several of them are now admitted as staff physicians at the hospitals and dispensaries. One great advantage that they seem to have over their rivals of the other sex is that they can tack out their sign and then go as professional nurses until business comes to them. The male doctor often has to starve through a course of a year or two, and then he frequently fails to make enough to keep the pot boiling. Women doctors are generally proficient nurses and they are trained by nature and study to care for the sick.
They can take a patient and prescribe for him, and then watch by the bedside until all is over. At the end double fees are demanded—the regular doctor's fees for prescribing, and then the nurse's salary for watching and nursing the patient according to the prescriptions made out by herself. There is no doubt but a great advantage is obtained in this way, and the nurse and doctor are both held responsible for any mistake. Among babies and women the female doctor has a field, which she is gradually making a specialty.--«si?
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)
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