She is angrier about the anemic patients she treated with liver who then said, “Don’t give me any more of that medicine, doctor. It makes me hungry and I can’t afford [to eat].”23 She taught her patients to fight authorities to get extra milk, for the extra iron it would give them. She taught her students that to practice medicine, they must learn to deal with the public assistance board, with bureaucracy, as well as with the hospital dispensary. I like her clear fulmination, which persisted sixty years after the young trainee doctor set out into the slums. I wish she were here to fulminate
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