How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
She eventually established a practice in Walthill, Nebraska, a growing town on the Omaha Reservation.
The change gave her more independence.
It also placed her directly inside another problem.
She could treat sickness.
But too many patients needed a place where treatment could happen efficiently.
A doctor in a buggy could only reach so many people in a day.
Susan needed a building.
Marriage Did Not End Her Medical Career
In 1894, Susan married Henry Picotte.
For many professional women of the Victorian era, marriage could end a career.
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