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What was the state of hospitals and the nursing profession at the beginning of the Civil War?

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What was the state of hospitals and the nursing profession at the beginning of the Civil War?

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Neither the nursing profession nor the hospital system as we know it now existed then. Nurses were listed in city directories, but they were women for hire who fed, bathed, and soothed a sick or dying person. (It has been reported that prostitutes posing as nurses roamed the halls of Bellevue Hospital, offering another kind of comfort to the ill.) Neither were there nursing schools. For the most part, the few hospitals available, especially the public hospitals, were generally places to which only the poor and indigent resorted, because infection was rampant and privacy nonexistent. Whenever possible, a sick or dying person wanted to be cared for at home, in the company of his family. Q. What inspired you to write about this particular era? In what ways is this period a turning point for the country, for women, and for the science of medicine? I didn’t so much choose the era as the era chose me through the character of Mary. The Civil War served the role that most wars play: they have

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