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A Memphis woman said her doctor greeted her with an insulting racial term during her visit on July 11.
Lexi Carter said her doctor, Dr. James Turner, came into the room and said, "Hi Aunt Jemima."
"I haven't slept. I haven't--I haven't really been able to deal with this," Carter said. "It's just the most horrible feeling really and I try to understand it and I don't understand it."
No one deserves to be insulted by their doctor. My neurologist has a terrible bedside manner, just awful at times. At one point, I was so fed up I switched neurologists only to have the new one put my health at great risk. I ended up going back to the first, highly competent but sometimes rude specialist. That said, this woman is probably doing the right thing to report him. At least someone can investigate if this is a pattern or a very stupid mistake. His nurses will know, whether they will say so is another matter.
It seems like we need to have a sub forum for all of these stories so this forum can get back to politics.
The doctor is a classless, ghetto fool. I'm glad she is filing a complaint with the medical board.
No, she isn't being a drama queen. She is older and grew up in a different time. Such things have a different effect on the older generation.
Oh please, she's younger than I am. She has a right to be insulted, and filing a complaint against him to his employer is the appropriate thing to do. But, if she is losing sleep over this like she claimed, she has bigger issues than this dirt bag.
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Oh please, she's younger than I am. She has a right to be insulted, and filing a complaint against him to his employer is the appropriate thing to do. But, if she is losing sleep over this like she claimed, she has bigger issues than this dirt bag.
I agree, she should have been offended, but to blow it up into much more is simply looking for a big payday. Hell, all of us get offended by something that is done to us, but it does not ruin our lives and make us not want to get out of bed.
She is trying to score a settlement to "calm her down from all the trauma" !
The story doesn't indicate whether or not the patient entered the doctor's office wearing a kerchief on her head while slinging a bowl of pancake batter. More details would help me determine a rational response.
This is "subtle racism" as opposed to "blatant racism". The problem with subtle racism is that it is common and obvious to minorities but usually denied or oblivious to whites. A person committing subtle racism usually has only one definition of racism - the extremely blatant form like Nazism, the KKK, segregationists (e.g. the 1960s Alabama Governor George Wallace), etc. So the feeling seems to be that "as long as it's not blatant racism then it's not racist - so I am not racist and subtle racism is not real. Minorities are just too hypersensitive".
WebMD recognizes subtle ambiguous racism as a stress factor that is actually more damaging for minorities to deal with than blatant racism because of its ambiguity and unwillingness for many whites to recognize it. But it's real. Subtle Racism Harasses Brain
I witnessed lot of subtle racism when I was a graduate student in biomedical engineering at local hospitals. At one hospital for Native Americans I remember an older white male physician joking about a nurse's dark skin color. She was full-blooded (not part white like many) and had a dark brown complexion. I remember she was really hurt by it. The white physician just laughed it off and walked away.
A common form of harassment in the hospital is work-related bullying. I saw that a lot. The hospital is oftentimes a caste system with white male doctors who are (in some cases rude). They are not all like that, but the pattern is real. I saw that in Denver, CO at the University Health Sciences Center. They had some of the most arrogant, condescending white doctors I had ever seen. The surgical character portrayed by Alec Baldwin in "Malice" reminds me of some of those doctors at the CU School of Medicine. To be fair, that was back over 15 years ago. Maybe they changed (hopefully).
This is "subtle racism" as opposed to "blatant racism". The problem with subtle racism is that it is common and obvious to minorities but usually denied or oblivious to whites. A person committing subtle racism usually has only one definition of racism - the extremely blatant form like Nazism, the KKK, segregationists (e.g. the 1960s Alabama Governor George Wallace), etc. So the feeling seems to be that "as long as it's not blatant racism then it's not racist - so I am not racist and subtle racism is not real. Minorities are just too hypersensitive".
WebMD recognizes subtle ambiguous racism as a stress factor that is actually more damaging for minorities to deal with than blatant racism because of its ambiguity and unwillingness for many whites to recognize it. But it's real. Subtle Racism Harasses Brain
I witnessed lot of subtle racism when I was a graduate student in biomedical engineering at local hospitals. At one hospital for Native Americans I remember an older white male physician joking about a nurse's dark skin color. She was full-blooded (not part white like many) and had a dark brown complexion. I remember she was really hurt by it. The white physician just laughed it off and walked away.
A common form of harassment in the hospital is work-related bullying. I saw that a lot. The hospital is oftentimes a caste system with white male doctors who are (in some cases rude). They are not all like that, but the pattern is real. I saw that in Denver, CO at the University Health Sciences Center. They had some of the most arrogant, condescending white doctors I had ever seen. The surgical character portrayed by Alec Baldwin in "Malice" reminds me of some of those doctors at the CU School of Medicine. To be fair, that was back over 15 years ago. Maybe they changed (hopefully).
That is the dumbest statement I've read on c-d in hours. "Usually denied or oblivious to whites?"
Just what c-d needs - another racist.
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