Crimea Quote by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

“No medical student was trained in the subject, although as a qualified doctor, he (rarely she) miraculously acquired the authority to tell a woman…

— Gabrielle Palmer

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own…

— Mary Pope Osborne

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression…

— Alice Hamilton

“It was the medical staff, not the mothers, who resisted the idea that breastfeeding worked.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against…

— J. G. Ballard

In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly…

— Sam Kean

“Hospital practices sabotaged breastfeeding, as they still do in too many places.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image,…

— J.G. Ballard

First of all, I hated the medical profession. Medical education in Egypt was taken from the British, French, colonial educational system. And it's very,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

“Women were most frequently institutionalized by the order of husbands and fathers, whose will and opinion superseded the women’s. A doctor’s legal and medical…

— Kate Clifford Larson

“While women workers were struggling to keep their children fed and alive, their leisured sisters were convinced by doctors that they were too delicate…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“She had added medicine because her brother-in-law practised it, but did not forget that in her young days no one ever considered the doctor…

— William Somerset Maugham