News Summary

• Margaret Smith was a Perth obstetrician and women's health advocate.
• She delivered some 6,000 babies throughout a decades-long career.
• Dr Smith died on July 14, her 94th birthday.
• In a eulogy, a family friend described her as 'the Hippocratic Oath writ large' She was a WA Citizen of the Year and a Member of the Order of Australia.
• In 2011, she was inducted into the WA Women's Hall of Fame.
• She was also a founding member of the Australasian Menopause Society.