After Maria arrived, she received her duty assignment at a hospital that was run by women. The United States refused to allow women who were trained physicians to serve in WWI. There were roughly eighty female doctors who were like, “I would like to serve, please send me,” and the United States essentially said, “No, thanks anyway.”[12] So what did the women doctors do? Sit back and complain that the government was allowing soldiers to suffer instead of using the willing and able services of trained surgeons? No. They fundraised to go on their own.
