Phoebe Yates Levy Pember
US Civil War Confederate nurse who eventually ran the world’s largest hospital
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Captain Sally Tompkins
US Civil War Confederate nurse who turned her Richmond mansion into Robertson Hospital, which had by far the lowest death rate of any facility in the North or South, even though physicians sent their worst cases to her.
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Susie Carson Rijnhart
1800s Canadian physician, medical missionary, and author
Patricia Anne Brennan
Australian Anglican missionary, campaigner, feminist theologian, forensic physician and media presenter
Sarah Forbes
1800s Canadian military nurse
Sibella Barrington
Canadian nurse and administrator
Christine Ewan
Australian medical educator
Dr Anna Darrow
The second woman to be licensed as a doctor in Florida
Mary Baptist Russell
1800s Irish nun, philanthropist, and educator