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In reply to the discussion: Black Nurse Sues Hospital for Not Letting Her Take Care of White Baby [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But then what other hospital would want the baby, if he comes with all that trouble?
They didn't reassign her for safety or any other reason that as complying with a request based on race. That is illegal. Period. Unless there is some other factor in there....maybe the man had just been mugged by a black person, or his last baby died in the care of a black nurse...some mental reason for it.
I'm guessing, and it's just a guess, that the hospital has a policy of complying with the race requests. I'm sure they run across that with elderly patients. It's a dilemma.
But bottom line...the man wasn't paying for this, and it wasn't his hospital. When you go to a public place for treatment, and when you aren't paying the bill, can you really make special requests for attendants based on race? I think the answer to that is no.