WOMEN DOCTORS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 12, 16 January 1933, Page 11

WOMEN DOCTORS

STATUS IN AMERICA

That''women- doctors aro so accepted in the" "Western States of': America that they: assume .the status of the- family practitioner, while in the Eastern States the old-fashioned regard, for the male practitioner still holds good, is the contention Dr.- Amy Stevens, a San Francisco physician, _who arrived recently in Sydney, expressed to an inter viewer from the Sydney\"Suu." Dr. Stevens, who is a member of the American-Medical Association^ says that California has so many women doctors that it can support a, Women's Physi-cians'.'"■Club'-'with/a membership, of 110. This membership, however, does, not nearly represent all-the: women in practice. ■'-.:. People live ■well in. San Francisco, and a doctor: requires about £.100 a mouth for surgery rent, apartment rent, and upkeep of car before she begins to find money for food, clothes, and petrol. The hospitals are well equipped,. and there is an excellent system by which out-patients are kept in touch . with these hospitals. If, for example, a woman is examined and found to have a bad heart, so careful a record ;is made that, should she fail to appear again at the hospital, she will be discovered and treated./Largo;clihics, too, are part of the out-patients' departments of the hospitals. The women doctors' own particular hospital is called the Women and Children's Hospital, and was founded by the late Dr. Charlotte Brown about half a century ago. Dr. Brown was not only a pioneer in medicine, but she brought up: four children, three of whom arc practitioners. Hor daughter, Dr. Adelaide Brown, who- is about to retire, has always been most active in civic affairs. Needless to say, the Women and Children's Hospital • was founded, because at that time women doctors were not welcome in general hospitals, and it was necessary 4:6 provide them with a training ground;

Dr. Stevens, who intends to spend a few montlie in ' • Australia, speaks ■ also, of the-magnitude of the New Tork hospitals, where in one institution-as many-as 1800 put-patients are-examined in one day. .

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