How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
She built a hospital.
The Woman Once Ignored By Medicine Had Created Medical Infrastructure
By the time the hospital opened, Susan was no longer the young physician who had returned from Philadelphia.
She had spent decades treating patients.
She had married and been widowed.
She had raised children.
She had fought disease, alcohol abuse, sanitation problems, land fraud, and federal bureaucracy.
Her own health had deteriorated.
Yet she had achieved something larger than individual practice.
She had changed the medical geography of the reservation.
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