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Conditions may be bad for workers in the health service at the moment. but at leastwould-belemale doctors are no longerstoned bytheirlellow male students ontheirwayinto medical college. Such was the situation. however. when Elsie lnglisstartedto train inthe nineteenth-century in Edinburgh. Despite such hostility. she did become a doctor and went on to help her lather establish a second training college torwomen. She also became atireless campaignertorthe rights of women and for the poor. ‘She set up a hospice in the High Street and Not that such a challenge is likely to used the fees to treat the sick who were daunl Roberts. Anyone who can poorlree.‘ says Stuart Blackburn. ‘She squeeze 11 actorsthrouoh 90 costumes
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