THE WOMAN DOCTOR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 545, 28 June 1909, Page 3

THE WOMAN DOCTOR.

Not everyone of experience -shares Dr. Batchelor's ideas about women doctors A well-known woman journalist writes in a lion- 1 don journal saying.—Now that women are allowed toll privileges in tho study and practice ot medicine, it will be interesting to soe them forge ahead in this all-important branch of science 'lhat they excohm-'it is only natural,-tor it is surely a woman's work to alleviato suffering, and it she has tho patience and dertness to be a nurse she 1 also baa the brains to be a doctor On'all sides one hears of. the remarkable cures effected by women, and the? mark of nearly all is their simplicity ana common sense Thoy start with the groat advantage.of having a century of extraordinary advance- | ment in-the knowledge of medicine at their disposal, without tho hampering of tradition. ' I am quite sure that m the future tho study of disease and the means to remo\ e it will make great' strides in the bands of wo•moh. They also ha\o a very great oxtornal advantage of dcaling'with women, that largo class of pseudo-shy patients who aro too "modest' -to explain their feelings*to tho doctor when he is a mani will not havo any excuso for tho evasions and clouds of words in which they ha\o wrapped thdir explanations if they arc dealing with a woman Besides, a woman knows what other women aro suffering, and can judge whether it is true or not that women feel less than men, or whether it is simply that they art trained to bear discomfort better Training counts for much, and heroism sdmetimcs leads people to[ imagine that, because there is so little sign of suffering, there must bo very little of it.