The Woman ’s Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) op...  ...for women to be accepted as medical students and doctors . But life inside WMCP was like other medical scho...  ...over the world. Read about the early days of the Woman

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story, first...  ...t story, first published in 1894, about a country doctor named Ripley who found that a second doctor had set up shop in the village of Hoyland. He goe...  ...Dr. Ripley is shocked to find that Dr. Smith is a woman , so sh...

When Susan La Flesche entered medical school in 18...  ...1886, she had two strikes against her: she was a woman , and she was a Native American. She couldn't vote...  ...oking for a clean place to rest. She became their doctor , but in many ways their lawyer, accountant, pries...