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KMID : 0371919930060010195
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Journal of Wonju College of Medicine
1993 Volume.6 No. 1 p.195 ~ p.207
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The Unique Activities of Dr. Florence Murray in Korea
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Abstract
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Florence J. Murray graduated from Dalhausie Medical School in Canada and came to Korea as an Canadian medical missionary at the age of 25 in 1921. When she came to Korea firstly, she had worked almost twenty years at Jeheh Hospital in Hamheung till Japanese forced the evacuation of all missionaries in 1941. She did too many things there, for example, opening branch-clinics, man-aging an isolation ward for anti-Tuberculosis firstly in Korea, and founded nursing school, etc. , .
She came back to Korea again in 1947 to help not only set up Ehwa Woman´s Medical College as a vice dean but also helped Severance Hospital as an acting super-intendant´ during and after the Korean War. She also worked as a founder - of Wonju Christian Hospital in Kangwon Provice. While establishing the Hospital she concerned over the plight of many leprosy patients in the area. She purchased a large tract of land and set up Kungchunwon village for their treatment, educaton and livehood. At that time (1962) , she reached the age of retirement, and back to Canada.
She came back thirdly to Korea in 1962 to help leprosy project in Kyungsang Province for three years. And after that she returned to Severance Hospital where she spent four more years as Director of Medical Record Library, brought it up to standard. During her stay she did not only open the curriculum for the Medical Records Librarian for the first in Korea but also helped to found their organizuon, etc. , .
Throughout her life we can not only find that she did threefold or fourfold work than the other but also there was an unique structure in her activities. Wherever she was it takes at least three stages;
1) She always did her best to develop her main job.
2) She also started new branch works for the purpose of widening the medical service specially for the outcast.
3) She made it institutionalized in order to overcome the situational problems continuously.
Her life makes us to know medicine as a benevolent art. Thus some people call her "an apostle of healing art". We may say she showed us an earchetype of real physician.
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