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receive such training and obtain their diplomas certifying their right to
act as physicians.—
Special Testimonies, Series B 15:1, 2 (1911)
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Larger Number of Female Physicians Needed—In our medical
institutions there ought always to be women of mature age and good
experience who have been trained to give treatments to the lady pa-
tients. Women should be educated and qualified just as thoroughly as
possible to become practitioners in the delicate diseases which afflict
women, that their secret parts should not be exposed to the notice
of men. There should be a much larger number of lady physicians,
educated not only to act as trained nurses, but also as physicians. It is
a most horrible practice, this revealing the secret parts of women to
men, or men being treated by women.—
Special Testimonies, Series B
15:13, 14 (1911)
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Husband and Wife Physicians Work Together Effectively—In
the medical missionary work to be done, women should give treatment
to women. A man and his wife who are both physicians can accomplish
great good by laboring together. The wife can visit other women, and
when she finds suffering and disease, she can consult with her husband
as to the best method of helping the sufferers. We should have more
women physicians than we have. When women who are sick are
treated and cared for by women, a door through which Satan tries to
enter is closed against him. Many cases have been presented to me
where Satan has entered through this door to ruin families. Let him
not obtain any advantage upon any point.
I wish all to understand this matter. There should be in our sani-
tariums women physicians who can stand by their husbands, and who
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can do the examining of women patients, and give them treatment.
Many more sensible, thoroughly converted women should become
intelligent physicians.
I am instructed that our sanitariums must have women physicians
as well as men physicians.—
Medical Ministry, 140 (1910)
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Women to Treat Women; Men to Treat Men
Women to Be Thoroughly Trained as Physicians—Women
physicians should utterly refuse to look upon the secret parts of men.
Women should be thoroughly educated to work for women, and men
to work for men. Let men know that they must go to their own sex