Susan La Flesche Picotte, First N.A. Female MD
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Death in 1915

Susan La Flesche Picotte obituary. Source — NSHS.




Susan La Flesche Picotte spent her life first learning about health and then bringing that knowledge to her Omaha people through education, doctoring, and communicating with the Federal government about what her people needed.

Only 50 years old, she died on September 18, 1915 after an illness of three years.
 
 

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