Throughout the story, Nora conducts a series of experiments and independent studies. What does it seem like she is hoping to learn?
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I loved that she was constantly researching, reading, and studying. She took the initiative to learn EVERYTHING. All of that plus the hands on practice is what made her the very best surgeon. Let's not forget that she also incorporated female intuition while caring for the ill/performing surgeries :)
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For Nora learning is her life and with limited access to formal education she self -educates in the fields of science and medicine where she has had a mentor all her life who is a well-known scientist and surgeon. The knowledge she gains is immediately recognized and encouraged by her mentor and eventually others
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Nora was extremely fortunate that her mentor respected her natural intelligence and encouraged her to increase her knowledge at every opportunity. She wanted to learn all she could about the way the human body functions and to ease the suffering of others. She applied this thirst for knowledge to all aspects of her life.
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I think she was trying to learn everything she could about the human body! She had a thirst and desire to find the best techniques to improve medicine and the way it was practiced. I honestly can't imagine the barbaric ways they treated patients back in this day, so I imagine if I had been a doctor I would have been searching for ways to improve outcomes and administer treatment in the least painful way as possible.
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