‘No black nurses’ lawsuit: 2nd nurse says she was asked not to touch infant

[DonViejo]

By The Christian Science Monitor
Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:05 EST

Where there is one, there is more.

Just days after news spread of a nurse at a Flint, Mich. hospital who had filed a lawsuit claiming her employer granted a patient’s request not to have African-American nurses treat his baby, a second nurse has corroborated the claim in another lawsuit.

The nurse, Carlotta Anderson, claims in her lawsuit that a notice was posted on the assignment clipboard in the neonatal unit of the Hurley Medical Center on Oct. 31 that said, “No African American nurse to take care of baby.”

Anderson’s lawyer, Tom Pabst, tells The Christian Science Monitor that the notice is unambiguous discrimination.

“There’s no misunderstanding. They gave an instruction. No black hand touches a white baby,” he says.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/23/no-black-nurses-lawsuit-2nd-nurse-says-she-was-asked-not-to-touch-infant/

[Exultant Democracy]

1. But Faux told me racism was over when Obama was elected, are you saying they... gasp... lied?

[TwilightGardener]

2. I've seen this happen, as both an aide and a nurse. There are certainly still some racist and

sexist patients and family members out there who demand that certain nurses and aides not treat the patient. I worked with a black aide who was never assigned to certain patients, because they didn't want her. Male nurses and aides are sometimes prevented from treating women. It's sad, but the facility will generally try to follow the patient's or family's stupid wishes.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. This needs to stop and right away. I am white and when I was in the hospital I had

great nurses and doctors. The color didn't matter.

[SwissTony]

5. Exactly.

I was in hospital 2 years ago and my favourite nurse was an African-Australian. One day he came in and asked if a student could have a look while he treated me. I told the student "Watch what this guy is doing. He's GOOD". (The other nurses and medical staff were brilliant, too).

But what I wanted was competence, not skin colour.

[southernyankeebelle]

7. That's the way I feel. You can bet a racist wouldn't care if there was only one doctor

and he/she was black and he needed his life to be saved. I sure bet that racist wouldn't care then.

[spanone]

4. i would have touched that child every single opportunity i got....

but that's just me.

these are some knuckle-dragging racist fucks.

[treestar]

6. So this is their new method of attack

Claim it should be their right as a personal decision to be racists.

If I ran that hospital I would tell them to get the hell out. Using their own illness or their child's medical issues to advance this agenda? It's not acceptable in our society today.

And as someone pointed out in the posts on the first nurse's case, the racists were fine with it in the old days when black slaves or nannies took care of their children. So this is not even sincere, just an attempt to stir the shit and make a "point."

[Sheldon Cooper]

8. I think the hospital was wrong to honor the patient's request.

I think there should be language in the consent forms that you sign when you get admitted which informs you that you will be treated by qualified staff regardless of their gender, color, religion, etc. Then you would be free to seek care elsewhere. In 2013 it's simply ridiculous that a hospital can treat their employees in this manner.