Question

Prior to 1915, there was little evidence that there was discrimination towards Blacks in hospitals. Explain, in detail, how hospitals and the health field in general dealt with black patients, black medical students, black physicians, and black nurses. In addition, what were the two hospitals, in Cleveland, that willingly treated blacks before the Great Migration?

Answer 1

The discrimination towards black led to major health issues.

The patients were the great sufferer , doctors who took oath for treating patients equally ignored doing it, just because the patient were black.This difference resulted in unequal access to quality education for students, healthy food, livable wages, housing in general.The root cause of this is racism and inequalities in health care treatment.

In hospitals patients refused the care of a black nurses,

White father of a newborn never allowed a black nurse to handle his baby.

Black doctors: Patients refuse their treatment from a black doctor,in view of racism and they are not trustworthy.

Black medical student: The professor once refused taking classes for a black students.They insulted them .

The Great migration is thousands of African American shifted to Cleveland from South to North

Freedmen's Hospital was one of the hospital which treated blacks.It still exists as Howard University Hospital.

Lincoln hospital also treated blacks

Provident Hospital and Saint Agnes hospital as also treated blacks