Martha Ballard was a pioneer the in health profession because she wore many different hats. Martha healing compared to the doctor was grass roots. She did what she knew best by using different plants, roots and herbs to control diseases and she did not vary away from that. There was a part in the movie, where a woman was in labor and Martha had an issue when the woman wanted pain medicine from the physician to help ease the labor pain. Martha believe in natural labor. At the moment, I noticed the shift in health care and medicine during labor, because how many other women during that time would choose drugs to ease labor pain versus Martha’s style of labor and delivery. In the end, her need for delivery babies was declining, which tell me,
