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Doctor Mary Walker

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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Doctor Walker - I Don't Care About the Niceties of Her Clothes

Doctor walker went to a non traditional medical school and was denied admittance. She volunteered at a temporary hospital tending to seriously wounded men. When they tell you your leg need to be cut off, she says, "Use every swear word that your mother told you never to use" Her mentor offered to pay her part of his own salary, but he was married and had small children. He kept writing beseeching letters to his superiors pleading to please compensate this woman.

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