The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-12
Sex Equality
Finding Way
in Medicine
BY JULIA BLANSHARD
SEA Service Writer

NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-It IS rare
hospital. even in this age Of enlight-
enment and fairness TO women, that
welcomes the girl inferno. 1t is the
unusual institution that is not
prejudiced against having women
physicians on the staff.
But. once through with that in
terneship and established in her
own office, the woman doctor today
has every chance to make a fine
reputation for herself. II depends
from then on on her ability.
That is about how this woman
doctor business, alleged TO be the
hardest profession for women to en-
ter. weighs on the scales of sex
equality, according to woman doc
TOR who has made good in New
Castle, Pa. She is DR.. Mildred
Rogers.
Day of Distrust Over
Il have found that the day IS over
that people distrust women doctors"
DR.. Rogers asserted. Some women
prefer women doctors, but the usual
attitude is that it doesn't make any
difference whether a doctor is a
woman or a man, just so he or she is
skilled.
so far as men competitors go,
have always found that they are
more than fair. often they have
loaned me a helping hand. I think
all the talk about men physicians
resenting women in the profession is
unjust.
Wherever women are established
In practice, men doctors respect
them and are glad to work with
them"
DR.. Rogers is an obstetrician, with
the record of having officiated at the
birth of more than 400 babies. She
is en- route now to Europe, where she
will visit certain famous hospitals to
observe their special routines.
viii Study Abroad
She is especially interested in the
place women physicians abroad &C
cupy in their respective localities
and in their profession.
If all the women doctors in
America could cooperate with other
girls coming into the profession, it
wouldn't take more than a genera
ton or so to make an impression on
the hospitals prejudices against our
SEX" DR.. Rogers said. There really
are some advantages in being
woman doctor, rather than a man,
in spite of what folks say.
Just take the matter of bills, to
be rather practical. I think women
doctors get paid more quickly than
men. 1 do not know whether it is
chivalry or not, but 1 have noticed
that while the father of a new,
bouncing baby boy may be tempted
to forget the male obstetrician who
had a hand in the arrival of the
offspring. that if that doctor is
woman, he pays up promptly.
They Always Pay Her
Patients who fail to pay their
bills are practically nonexistent in
my experience. I have never had
to dun a single one for my fees.
Instead of discouraging women
from being physicians. I believe that
women can get a tremendous salts
faction out of the profession.
1t is all-consuming, you must
know that it will make you a time
slave to it, but the returns in pleas
ure are worth much more than all
the trials and tribulationS.
Personally, 1 think nothing in
the world compares to ObStetrical
work, the pleasure of bringing ba-
bies into the world, participating in
the Joy of parents. And 1 think
women are eminently fitted for this
work.
Just give women a generation or
so more time. l firmly believe that
the universal acceptance of the
woman doctor will beat down the
institutions prejudices. There will
be as many successful women doc
tors as there are business women"