If he can find one.

At Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and they did NOT side with the parent. She had one child who was so afraid of the African American staff members they had to find him everytime they needed to treat him. Ignorance never dies. Just ignorant people.

In this situation more than once 50 years ago. White family members often complained and were outright rude to African American doctors, nurses, aides, etc. They were also rude to other minorities who worked there too. The hospital did not shift staff, especially for critical care patients, like NICU babies.

Was a rather vigorous discussion. Thought you'd be interested to know.

... for a second this wouldn't be racial discrimination? "No, we won't do that. No, we're not sorry. Your move, Nazi Dad."

would be the safety of a A-A employee, if someone showed me a swastika tatoo (an implied threat) and demanded that the A-A employee not care for his child. I suspect that some law prohibited the hospital from discharging the child as a response to his father's threat. I don't know if they could have prohibited the father from entering the hospital as a solution to the problem.

Apparently, the nurse felt they should have let her continue to care for the child even under threat of harm to herself. I hoped they reassigned her for her safety and not any other reason. Looks like a law suit for the hospital was in the making no matter what choice they made.

Nor should we compromise our principles and break the law. If he's a threat, call the police. And the nurse who is suing was not the only black nurse on staff. Everyone was affected by this.

I could see reassigning as an emergency measure just until they could speak to security and hospital lawyer and other relevant supervisors, but this went on for much longer than just a shift or two. This continued unofficially for a whole month even after the hospital's own lawyer said it was illegal.

Safety FIRST! The threat was real.

"I could see reassigning as an emergency measure just until they could speak to security and hospital lawyer and other relevant supervisors, but this went on for much longer than just a shift or two. This continued unofficially for a whole month even after the hospital's own lawyer said it was illegal."

Didn't know this. I totally agree. Where did you find that info?

Taking care of an immediate threat is one thing, but weeks of pandering to the father--good grief!

"ABC12 has obtained a copy of a note the lawsuit claims was prominently posted on the assignment clipboard. It reads "Please, No African American Nurses to care for Baby per Dad's request. Thank you."

At some point after, according to the lawsuit, a Hurley attorney advised the nurse manager they couldn't do what they were doing and the father was told his request could not continue.

"After that, there still was this practice to discriminate against the African American employees and no African American nurses cared for that baby," said Julie Gafkay, who is the attorney for the nurse who is suing."

Whether 1 or 20 threads, it makes no difference if someone hasn't seen it yet.

I would have missed it altogether. Such is the nature of DU. Threads sink.

More exposure of an injustice can never hurt. The old marketing saw on effective frequency fits here: It takes a certain number of exposures to a message "before a response is made and before exposure is considered wasteful".

Per the article, they placed a note on the baby's chart specifying no African American staff to attend.

Left it there for a month before their law dept. found out and forced them to remove it and at long last tell the racist pig father they couldn't honor his demand.

Yeah, it's reprehensible and I feel bad for that kid to be growing up with hateful values, but the hospital has to respect the wished of the parents.

The hospital lawyer said as much. The hospital officially stopped the practice after the hospital lawyer instructed them to, but unofficially it continued for another month.

I don't live here.

And I don't live here either.

she stated she wanted to become a teacher..and in the same breath she declared she had been to the emergency room and there was a Chinese (Asian) doctor and she felt his head was too small to contain a brain smart enough to be a doctor...and felt she should have an American doctor to care for her..

Like I said I was shocked.....she wanted to be a TEACHER!

Patients, clients, vendors, students, etc. It is illegal.

staffed the neonatal nursery entirely (as much as possible) with AA nurses on as many shifts until baby was discharged. That might have changed the game on him.