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A review by pauletter
My Name Is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
4.0
I assume that Oliveira took the time to do a lot of research into the civil war and what conditions during the war were really like in those times. If conditions really were as bad as she describes then in the book, then oh my god, I am glad I was not alive to experience the civil war. Sanitary conditions were pretty much non-existent. Doctors and nurses had no idea that the best way to prevent infection was simply to wash their hands.
Aside from the horrible conditions of war lies a story of perseverance and a love story. Mary Sutter, the story's protagonist, is a woman and a midwife, and desires with all of her heart to become a surgeon one day but no medical school will give her the time of day because she's a woman. Then she goes off to war in response to a call for nurses, but ends up training under a well known doctor instead, but not before she has mop floors, clean bedpans and scrap feces from the water closet. I enjoyed the book, especially when reading about all the casualties of war. I was more interested in the sanitary conditions of the war than the love story but both stories work well and come together at the end.
Aside from the horrible conditions of war lies a story of perseverance and a love story. Mary Sutter, the story's protagonist, is a woman and a midwife, and desires with all of her heart to become a surgeon one day but no medical school will give her the time of day because she's a woman. Then she goes off to war in response to a call for nurses, but ends up training under a well known doctor instead, but not before she has mop floors, clean bedpans and scrap feces from the water closet. I enjoyed the book, especially when reading about all the casualties of war. I was more interested in the sanitary conditions of the war than the love story but both stories work well and come together at the end.