How Susan La Flesche Picotte Became America’s First Native Woman Doctor – Then Built The Hospital Her People Had Been Denied
Susan faced all of that while also navigating racism and federal Indian policy.
Even today, the logistics of her early practice sound punishing.
A single physician responsible for well over a thousand patients across a huge rural area would be considered a serious healthcare shortage.
Susan did it with nineteenth-century transportation.
No phone in every household.
No ambulance network.
No paved highway.
No antibiotics.
No electronic records.
No modern diagnostic laboratory.
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