Rachel’s Reviews > Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers > Status Update
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“…a Johns Hopkins professor in 1912 indicated that most American doctors were less competent than the midwives. Not only were the doctors themselves unreliable about preventing sepsis and ophthalmia but they also tended to be too ready to use surgical techniques which endangered mother or child.”
— Jun 13, 2021 09:03PM
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“The Flexner Report [1910] was the foundations' ultimatum to American medicine. In its wake, medical schools closed by the score, including 6 of America's 8 black medical schools and a majority of "irregular" schools which had been a haven for female students. Medicine was established once and for all as a branch of “higher”learning, accessible only through lengthy and expensive university training.” (p 32)
— Jun 13, 2021 09:00PM
