Tag: Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte: tradition
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Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte: Tradition, assimilation, and healing
Mariel TishmaChicago, Illinois, United States “My office hours are any and all hours of the day and night.”—Susan LaFlesche Picotte1 It was August of 1889 and Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte was suffering a sleepless night. She had just treated her first patient and she doubted her diagnosis. She was a new doctor after all, and…