work, she had the opportunity at the hospital to replace the position of Dr. Lawrence Barker, one of the most famous cardiovascular surgeons in the world.
And finally she became a very competent and brilliant doctor. From the above, I think that it is a natural thing if someone wants to
achieve hisher ambition, desire, or even dream. And later on heshe must be successful if she he struggle hard and patiently to fight through any challenges or
difficulties that might arise in the time of achieving the ambition.
3.2.2 Kat Hunter’s ambition
The other woman doctor was Kat Hunter. She was a beautiful black woman, tall, large boned, intensely graceful, and her carriage was cool. Kat
Hunter had a terrible childhood, because her stepfather raped her when she was thirteen years old. Kat runs away when she realized that she was pregnant. She ran
to her aunt’s house and had abortion. Her life began to change completely after she had run away from home.
Her aunt’s admonition was that she had to stop running away and hiding. Her aunt suggested that Kat be able to stand up for herself and decided to be someone
important.
“ By knowing that you’re important. First, you get and image in your mind of who you want to be, child, and
what you want to be. And then you go to work, becoming that person”. Sheldon 1985, pg. 67.
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These words built up Kat’s spirit and she became an ambitious woman. She decided to take school and spend her days on a lot of books. As the result of
Kat’s hard work, she managed to be the top one in her class. One day in her school library, she read Agnes Cooper’s” Promises to keep”, and “woman
surgeon” by Dr. Else Roe. And it opened up a whole new world for Kat. “I’m going to be a doctor. A famous one”, she said to herself. Kat Hunter also got
experience about the sexual harassment. The men doctors were flattering Kat and Paige and treating them as sexual objects. Kat and Paige’s feelings were hurt and
ignored. Kat Hunter had a pressure from Margaret Spencer, she was a nurse chief.
She had the power to assign an inept scrub nurse to assist on a complicated surgery, or if she liked to the doctor she would send the most competent nurse to
help him with a simple surgery. Margaret Spencer was an antipathy to black women doctors. Kat Hunter was one of the black women.
Margaret Spencer had planned to get rid of Kat Hunter by making her life so miserable. By doing so, she hoped that Kat would be forced to quit, regardless
of Kat’s dedication and her ability.
“I’m not going to let that bastard beat me down. I’m not.” Kat said. Sheldon 1985, pg.178.
Kat Hunter made the real breakthrough. It happened because what to be known around the hospital as the famous pig blood. One day she got patient, Mr.
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Levy. He was in an automobile accident and lost great deal of blood, needs immediate transfusion. But the hospital is short of blood and try t find from his
family, but his family already made they mind to refused to donated because they afraid will infection with AIDS or another infectious dieses. None doctors or
nurses could change their minds. But after Kat told to his family that she will give pig blood on him as the way out. Finally they agreed to make a blood donation.
Kat solved the problem just in fifty minutes. The story became an instant legend around the hospital.
After a few years, Dr. Curtis went into private practice and affiliated with the prestigious North Hospital. Unfortunately, the destiny played a dangerous and
bad game for Kat Hunter. Handsome and attractive playboy doctor, Ken Mallory, touched her heart. She was so in love with Ken that she even had a baby with him.
Luck was not on her side; Ken was not serious with her. He even killed her because she forced him to marry her.
In here I look that Kat Hunter always disappointed by man. The first she was pregnant because of her stepfather violence her when she was thirteen. And
then she was killed by a man, he is Ken Mallory because she falling in love to him whereas he wasn’t serious love to Kat. Actually Kat is a woman who has strong
ambition, she is an ambitious woman. Because she able to awake from her problem and she has spirit to reach her ambition to be a doctor. But because of her
love to a man, she became killed by the man, because her love is blind she love a bad man. So Kat died because of her love blind.
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3.2.3 Honey Taft’s ambition
