A GRACEFUL TRIBUTE
WOMEN DOCTORS
MORE THOROUGH THAN MEN
(From The Guardian's London
Correspondent)
LONDON, October 8,
"You are more thorough than men," said Lord Horder this week in an address to students of the London School of Medicine for Women. "It is, I suppose, a part of your greater conscientiousness, and, heavens, how thorough you, can. be!" he added.
In the course of a graceful tribute to women doctors, Lord Horder said: "I have met quite a lot of women doctors and by this time I am fairly at home with them. I believe the good man doctor has a little more, of the feminine in him than has the average man. You are also said to have more intuitibn than we have and there are those who think that this should give you an advantage over us in the direction of what is sometimes called 'clinical instinct.' You are as a sex more curious than we are and this curiosity has already borne fruit in the hands of those women who have made their names famous in research. That you are more industrious and more studious, I am, with shame, compelled to admit, but I would warn you against vaunting yourselves overmuch about this virtue, for, if indulged in to excess, this may, like any other virtue, prove to be your undoing."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 87, 1 November 1938, Page 8
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