Susan La Flesche Picotte

Her Ruby Shoe Moment Susan La Flesche Picotte had a lifelong dream. She wanted to build a hospital on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska. She was the first Native American doctor in America and served the medical needs of the Omaha people. But she couldn’t help anyone who needed acute care — the closest hospital was 30 miles away (a … Read More

Mary Edwards Walker

They called her a “medical monstrosity” simply because she was a doctor who happened to be a woman. Take a trip to the Civil War era to meet Mary Edwards Walker…