Hello, I know most of you won't see this message in time, but there is a movie showing on one of the Cable channels right now which might be of interest ! It's a 1952 movie, named "The Girl in White," and it is about the first female doctor in the U.S. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_23.html .. While on the subject, someone on the Nova Scotia List offered me a web site mentioning the history of hospitals there. I was wondering if anyone knew of a web site which offered the history of hospitals in New York State .. or the U.S. in general ! I read that hospitals which were founded during the 1800's .. compared little to what we know of hospitals today ! And "many" patients were lost ! (Also read that there was a high death rate of children in orphanages in past centuries ! Would it have been that much difference between Canada and the U.S. in the late 1800's and early 1900's?) Betty (near Lowell, MA)