“No women need apply.” That was the message many frontier towns sent when advertising for a physician. Fortunately, a remarkable group of determined women ignored those words and forever changed the history of medicine in the American West.
The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier introduces readers to ten extraordinary women who overcame prejudice, treated gunshot wounds, battled epidemics, pioneered new medical techniques, and proved that skill—not gender—made a great doctor. Their courage helped shape communities across the frontier and opened doors for generations of women who followed.
Publishers Weekly called the book “a colorful account” of pioneering physicians, while Library Journal praised it as “a collection of tales about real superhero women and how they won respect.”
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