The practice of medicine by women in the United States.

"Emily F. Pope, C. Augusta Pope, and Emma Call, doctors on the staff of the New England Hospital, published a study on women physicians. Their sample included a group of 430 women doctors who had graduated from various medical schools since 1870. Only 13 of the respondents reported poor health and only 4 of these ascribed their illness to the pressures of their practice. Furthermore, only 34 of the 307 who reponded to a special question regarding menstruation stated that they were periodically incapacitated. 'We do not think it would be easy,' the authors delcared, 'to find a better record of health among an equal number of women, taken at random from all over the country.' (Walsh, Doctors wanted, No women Need Apply, pp 131-32)