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Nice simple one

Please name the first British Lady doctor.

medical or not?????

Do you mean a doctor for British ladies or a British doctor for ladies or a doctor who was a British Lady?

Medical Taff


a doctor who was a British Lady hygienicdispenser

I need a few more 's to add to today's impressive collection :

Elizabeth Fry

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Oh dear

Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson


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Good job I forgot these 2 ladies


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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE!!!!!!!

There's never been one.
(That's not a rabid anti-feminist statement, just a left-field punt)

Taff
bullseye Miss Nightingale.

hygienicdispenser
bullseye HD to far into left field.

Bob???

According to my reference book, the lady in questin has already been named. Doctorate achieved in 1859.....

There was an American ten years earlier!!



GT

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was not the very first, it is not that simple.

I sense that there may be a clue in the construction of "the first British doctor" compared to the normally expected "first doctor in Britain"?

Could the first British doctor of the female persuasion have become a doctor somewhere other than Britain?

Other than the two names already mentioned my doctors are limited to:
Dr Who
Dr Finlay (not forgetting the unforgettable Dr Snoddy and Dr Cameron)
Dr John Rebennack

and of course

Patient:Doctor, doctor I think I'm suffering from kleptomania.
Doctor:Keep taking the tablets.

The simple questions are usually the most tricky. Shall watch with interest.

Incidentally, Florence Nightingale invented (or at least popularised)* the pie chart. She was a whizz at statistics and needed a handy thingummy to convince the generals in the Crimea why a little extra hygiene would do more for their armies than more cannons.

It wasn't called a pie chart though it was something like ..er.. "a rose diagram" that was because it had lots of of overlapping 'petals' each petal's area was proportional to the value of the figures it represented.


*they never teach you this in history at school , and I don;t know why. Possibly because schools kids who hate pie-charts would start hating history instead.

Pebblederook, the joke is:

I'm a kleptomaniac, but I'm taking something for it.

Florence Nightingale invented (or at least popularised)* the pie chart.
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We never did this stuff at school in any subject. I thought a pie chart was Tubby Morton's diet sheet.

My guess it's actually a woman who dressed as a man, so theoretically passed the exams as a 'man' but was later found to be a woman...

I know of a few examples of that practice but am not sure which one to pick! lol

Matt's post has just reminded me of the strange story of Dr James Barry who served for many years as a military doctor.

It wasn't until "he" died that it was discovered that he was a she.

Like that Australian comedienne Edna Everage who does this marvellous comic routine dressed as a man called Barry Humphries?

Oh go on then... Dr Quinn? Did she emigrate?

Can I check - is this a female doctor, or a female who holds the title of Lady?