The best medicine
Subtitle: the true story of a nurse who became a doctor in the 1950's
By: Georgie Edwards
Publisher: Isis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781785410741
Subjects: Physicians; Career in medicine; Biography; Women physicians; Nurses; Medicine
Description: In 1949, Staff Nurse Georgie Edwards is asked to chaperone medical students undertaking their practical exams, when suddenly the penny drops. Georgie wants to learn to diagnose and treat, too. Against the odds, she wins herself a place to study medicine at London's St Bartholomew's Hospital. Once there, she sets about becoming not a consultant who 'sweeps by', but a doctor who listens and cares. Yet Georgie wants to fall in love and start a family as well as have a career. Is this one dream too many for a woman in the 1950s?