How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied

Again and again.

For roughly two weeks, she continued checking on the patient.

The girl eventually died.

Before her death, she reportedly asked whether Susan was coming.

The answer was yes.

The doctor was on her way.

The episode is almost the mirror image of the childhood story.

Susan had become exactly the physician she once wished would come.

But there is another layer.

She came, and the patient still died.