[HPforGrownups] Re: Gender balance/strong women Madam Pomfrey in particular

[Jen Faulkner]

No: HPFGUIDX 15034

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Katie Kearns wrote:

> I'm sorry -- how is she a nurse and not a doctor? Nurses don't diagnose. 
> Nurses don't re-grow entire arms back.

Madam Pomfrey is a nurse, and not a doctor, because she's called such.  
"Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was a nice woman, but very strict" (SS,
p.301).

And nurses, school nurses in particular, often do make (preliminary)
diagnoses, esp. of the 'does this child need to be sent home, does a
doctor need to be called, or should they just be sent back to class'
sort.  And our doctors don't regrow arms, either.

--jen :)

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