Race

  • Read more: Racism in Transplant Denial? Or Too Few Hearts To Go Around?

    Racism in Transplant Denial? Or Too Few Hearts To Go Around?

    By Michele Goodwin Anthony Stokes, a fifteen year old kid from Decatur County, Georgia, is expected to die in a matter of months, according to his doctors at the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.  Maybe, they say, he will live for six months.  Who knows?  Anthony suffers from an enlarged, increasingly less functional heart.  His condition…

  • Read more: Accomodating Racism in Hospitals

    Accomodating Racism in Hospitals

    By Michele Goodwin The Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan is being sued for accommodating the request made by a parent that no African Americans tend to his newborn. The father, who allegedly sported a swastika tattoo, alerted a nurse that blacks were not to care for his baby. To comply with the father’s request,…