WOMEN DOCTORS.
In view of the fact that at the recent Medioal Congress in London it was affirmed that the demand for women doctors was much greater than the supply, the following remarks by Professor Hackeneff, the eminent Austrian surgeon, will hardly be convincing:—"ln my opinion, which I share with many of my colleagues, and which is increasingly confirmed the more I become acquainted with female medioal students, women are not adapted for the work of a medical practitioner. Thig is not meant as censure, but only as a statement of fact. A doctor must judge independently and often act rapidly. His whole work demands qualities that are rarely found fully developed in the female sex Despite tho great industry and the high intelligence .shown by many of my women students, they are destined to succumb in their struggle, or at least not be able to attain a position corresponding to their work and to their sacrifice of the joys of life."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 4
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162WOMEN DOCTORS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 August 1913, Page 4
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