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In Field Where Patient Care Comes First, Hospitals Try To Take Steps To Protect Doctors From Racism
Some institutions are adopting language into their guidelines that says patient requests for providers based on gender, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation won鈥檛 be honored.
Darien Sutton-Ramsey walked into a patient鈥檚 room at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan a few months ago. The mother of the patient demanded that a physician come in. 鈥淲ell, you鈥檝e got it, I鈥檓 here,鈥 responded Dr. Sutton-Ramsey, a third-year resident in the emergency medicine department at NYU Langone Health. The mother didn鈥檛 believe that Dr. Sutton-Ramsey, who is African-American, was a doctor. She asked to talk to the physician-in-charge. His supervisor was also black. The patient ended up refusing medical care and left the emergency room. (Reddy, 1/22)
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