WOMEN ANAESTHETISTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 15

WOMEN ANAESTHETISTS

. SUCCESSFUL WORK. Woman is everywhere slowly but surely forging for herself a place in medicine In certain branches of the profession she has already achieved startling distinction. It has _ generally been conceded that for certain diseases, especially those of women and children, and the treatment and understanding of the nervous system, woman by her intuitive comprehension with sympathy with many of the lhs endnred is especially fitted to undertake their treatment and cure. Almost all the great hospitals in New ' York city have women attached to their ! staffs. In the charity, the nervous, and the children's wards there is usually a woman physician in attendance for the entrance examination; and by her gentleness and skill she does much to reassure the sick or nervous patient. AS HEALTH COMMISSIONER. In the Health Department of the city of York a; woman has for years been first assistant Health Commissioner; and by her insistence on attention to disease prevention has done much to raise the general.health standard of the city. She has also insisted successfully upon- weekly examinations of children in the public schools, upon doctors and nurses in attendance in most of the big department stores, and upon general health supervision and district nursing m the slums and congested parts of the There are many skilled women 6urgeona, nerve specialists, Vand general physicians, bat perhaps in. the department of anaesthesia alone woman has done the most startling work and won her highest place. In Mount Sinai and other gveat hospitals of New York city womln are entrusted with the giving of the anaesthetic. This department is one of the most difficult, and demands the most unwavering attention and devotion. The salary accorded, to one young woman who.is known throughout medial circles runs into unbelievable figures; and many of the greatest surgeons of the city entrust their most difficult cases to her