Orkney’s Pioneering Women Doctors

Quietly and meticulously, volunteer researchers in Orkney have been uncovering the work women doctors did in the islands prior to the formation of the National Health Service. An exhibition at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, pulls together what Fiona Sanderson has brought to light about Beatrice Garvie, who was the doctor on North Ronaldsay from … Continue reading Orkney’s Pioneering Women Doctors