A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence (LUCKY LOVERS OF LONDON #3) by Jess Everlee EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Emily
Farncombe, Surrey
July 1885
That there was a village hospital at all in such a funny little corner of Surrey
was lucky enough; that it boasted eight beds, two nurses, a skilled surgeon
within calling distance, and two-and-a-half physicians was a luxury.
The two physicians were the founders of the place, two gentlemen known
in the village for their kind hearts and modern minds.
The half-a-physician was a young doctor (though quite an old maid at the
ripe age of thirty) called Emily Clarke.
Emily wasn’t half-a-physician because she was halfway-trained, but in
spite of her full—and, she thought, rather impressive—qualifications, halfa-physician she remained in truth: half-paid, half-scheduled, half-respected,
and only permitted to minister to the same half of the population that she
herself was part of.
“I don’t know how I would have survived without you, Dr. Clarke. I’m
grateful beyond words that the founders were so open-minded as to bring
you on,” sighed the woman Emily was thankfully releasing this afternoon, a
patient she’d seen through a painful, highly personal problem that one of
the founding doctors had forbidden her to speak the proper name of aloud in
case a male relative should overhear it. “It’s really so forward-thinking to
have you here for this sort of thing. Could you imagine, having to go
through this with a male doctor at the helm?”
“Forward-thinking indeed,” Emily said as vaguely as possible as she
helped the woman out of bed. It wasn’t her job to help a patient put herself
together after giving the go-ahead for release. The other doctors here, those
open-minded founders of the place, didn’t do that sort of thing. But the
nurse always seemed to have an awful lot to do for those real doctors’
patients whenever Emily needed her.
At least the patient was pleased. Though Emily’s unusual occupation was
not universally approved of, the tide was turning in that regard, as more
people took the view her patient had expressed: that for propriety’s sake,
maybe women were best treated by other women. While Emily felt that was
still a bit shy of the mark when it came to equality, she was glad the attitude
had let her see this patient through until she was well at last and ready to
return to her family, her dear cat, Daisy, and (Emily knew from seeing her
around town) quite the collection of ostentatious hatpins.
“Do take care, Dr. Clarke,” the patient said, offering a dainty hand in
departure. “Should I or one of my daughters require your help again, can we
bring you in for a house call? I know your father used to do quite a lot of
those—”
“He did,” Emily said as pleasantly as she could manage, which, frankly,
wasn’t very pleasant at all. “But I’m afraid I do not.”
The patient’s gaze drifted toward the door to the women’s ward and the
rest of the cottage hospital beyond it. She lowered her voice. “Do they not
permit it?”
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