The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-27
CHAT OF WOMEN DOCTORS.
Motives That Induced Three OF Thorn to Emit
thu Medical Probation.

Motives That Induced Three OF Thorn to Enter
the Medical Profession.
Three young women on tho staff Of an uptown
hospital were asked tho other day what FIRST led
them to want to be doctors.
1.-THE love Of study had something to do with
my choice. but the desire to show what could
do influenced me more" confessed the pretty
house physician. You see, all the family at
home picked out my brother for a doctor. They
never seemed to take the least thought OF what
I was to be. ] was only a girl"
"She worked for her diploma simply out Of
spite" put in the head Of the dispensary stan.
"And why did you work for yoursf'
wish a view to making my living" was the
answer, land because my father and brother
were both doctors. and I had always heard and
known a good deal about medicine"
"She went into 1t for money" said the third
surgeon mischievously. "She plays the organ
like an artist. but she could not make money
enough as church organist; 30 she gave up her
music and adopted medicine. Hero you have
two noble incentives-spite and money-making.
| Now, as for me. nobody doubts that / went into
the profession from q born love Of 1t. Only
highest impulses spurred me on. only the most
disintcrested humanity prompted. Oh. you
know the rest. live in a state of exaltation.
high up on stills above ordinary mortals, and
| when l have a knife in my hand I am translated
for the time being"
Don't you mind her nonsense" put in an
other voice. "She's the best surgeon among us.
She's got the surest hand and the steeliest
nerve and tho incest judgment and keenest In
tuition"
Seriously, I'm really in love with my pro-
iession." said the surgeon, settling her necktie
and playing absently with a bunch of ~jingling
keys. II regard surgery and medicine in gen.
--.l - ~ 800 ah,~-Is-- .NNna
sion n woman can engage in"
There are drawbacks to 1t, though. Remem-
Der Sadie!' cautioned a tall girl. one of the
Out Department doctors who had just come in
and begun taking off her wraps:
Not in entirety, was the answer. when
tion. / recall the young, ones grave face and in
jured tone when she upbraided me; / am Sadie
The baby is growing nicely. l won't have to so
any more after to.morr1w.
on, land just q few days ago she was introduced
to her third baby brother. She is very much
disguised that the new baby is not "A girl, and
bics have come to three families in the neigh
borhood lately. two of the families being in the
p iiy was in charge. and Sadie. Who Is q
years old and wonderfully nstute for her years,
fact that her mothers doctor is a woman and
not n man, such ns the Others have.
Don't you see, mamma, she said on her first
glimpse OF the boy baby. that the men doctors.
when they 20 to Babyland. pick out all the nice.
sweet little girls, so that when the women doctors
come they Just give them any old thing. There's
Mr.. Manly with a girl baby. and Mrs. Hart,
she's got u girl baby. and Mrs. Brown. and
now Dir. Newman has only brought you this
ugly boy. when she promised me IL should be n
girl Her mother agreed that 1t looked sus-
picious. but told her that doctors, whether men
or women. were Obliged TO take Just what they
could get, and the three baby girls just hap.
pened so. i have carried Sadie candy and n new
hut o. trp md win hnr ( IA ynr hnf nlfhnnDh aln
cats the candy and wears the hat, she sticks out
that a woman doctor has to take any old thing,
and it is quite plain that l am a dead failure SO
far as she is concerned
"Wcll, we are not taking any old thing so far
as the Regents report may be trusted, said the
surgeon. Not ono OF the women who made
application from the Woman's Medical College
was rejected or failed to pass her examination
this year and, a score OF men failed to pass.
That's n fine plume for us to wave"
And the women's course is harder than tho
mems. They have made 1t 30 ON purpose" said
somebody.
mo, II isn't harder. That wouldn't be just"
was tho reioinder. and In the hot discussion that
followed the visitor slipped away.