How two suffragette doctors led England’s most remarkable military hospital through World War I and Spanish Flu. via nytimes
A riddle from my childhood goes like this: A father and son are injured in a serious car accident, and each is taken to a different hospital. As the boy is being prepped for surgery, the surgeon rushes in and exclaims in horror: “I can’t operate! He’s my son.
This was as shocking as it was revolutionary. Women doctors were almost unheard-of. Barred from studying at most institutions except for the London School of Medicine for Women, they were relegated to low-status, low-paying jobs in schools, prisons and asylums; most treated only other women and children. None of the men who would come to the Endell Street hospital had ever been treated by a woman before.
But there was little time for messing around. The first casualties arrived in May, 1915, in convoys of up to 80 men at a time; by the end of the first week, all 520 beds were filled. Typically, between 400 and 800 new patients would arrive each month, many needing immediate surgery , many with grievously infected wounds, many suffering from acute shell-shock, “more wounded in their minds than in their bodies.
Exhausted, worked to the bone, forced to improvise and develop new techniques on the fly, the women proved themselves capable of handling nearly everything thrown at them during the war. It is hard, in the spring of 2020, to read about the thing that brought them to the point of despair. It was the Spanish flu, which came in three waves during 1918 and 1919 and killed between 3 and 6 percent of the world’s population.
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