Margery Scott-Young (25 May 1912 – 4 November 1997) was an Australian
surgeon
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at Sydney's
Rachel Forster Hospital
The Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children opened on 3 January 1922
in Redfern (an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia) as the 'New Hospital'. In 1925 the hospital was renamed after Baroness Rachel Forster, the wife of the then Governor- ...
. She served as a major in the
Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
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during the Second World War.
Biography
Margery Scott-Young was born in
North Sydney on 25 May 1912. She attended
Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College and qualified as
MBBS
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from the
University of Sydney
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in 1936.
Scott-Young was appointed to
Sydney Hospital
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as a resident in 1936, and a year later she was made medical superintendent of the
Rachel Forster Hospital
The Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children opened on 3 January 1922
in Redfern (an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia) as the 'New Hospital'. In 1925 the hospital was renamed after Baroness Rachel Forster, the wife of the then Governor- ...
. She moved to the
Royal Hospital for Women
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in 1939 and left in 1940 to join the
Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
The Royal Australian Army Medical Corps (RAAMC) is the branch of the Australian Army responsible for providing medical care to Army personnel. The AAMC was formed in 1902 through the amalgamation of medical units of the various Australian coloni ...
, eventually rising to the rank of major.
[ She served at the 113th Australian General Hospital at Concord along with fellow women military doctors ]Gwen Fleming
Mary Gwenyth "Gwen" Fleming (née Lusby), FRACP, (9 June 1916 – 18 January 2011) was an Australian medical doctor who specialised in thoracic medicine and served in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps during the Second World War.
Early l ...
, Helen Braye and Eileen Scott-Young
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.Women Doctors Appointed to Military Post
''The Sun''; 13 Feb 1942
After World War II, she returned to the Rachel Forster Hospital's surgical department, holding the position of honorary assistant surgeon (1946–58) and honorary consultant surgeon (1958–72). She retired from practice in 1972 but continued to be active in the
New South Wales
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branch of the
Australian Medical Association
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, the Australian Federation of Medical Women, the Medical Benevolent Association of NSW, and the Australian Postgraduate Federation of Medicine.
Scott-Young was elected a fellow of the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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Known by its common acronym RACS, it is a not-for-profit organisation, sup ...
and the
Royal College of Surgeons of England
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in 1953. She was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(CBE) in 1977.
[ Her memoir, titled ''Family Bugles'', was published in 1991, and she died in ]Lane Cove
Lane Cove is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lane Cove is nine kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local governmen ...
on 4 November 1997.[
]
References
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1912 births
1997 deaths
Australian surgeons
Australian Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
Fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Sydney Medical School alumni
People from the North Shore, Sydney
Australian women in World War II
Medical doctors from Sydney
People educated at Monte Sant'Angelo Mercy College
Women surgeons
20th-century surgeons
Australian women medical doctors