Discrimination In The Medical Field Essay

The particular human resource current event that I have chosen to elaborate upon is an article in which highlights the discrimination of doctors within the current medical field. Throughout all walks of life people will be faced with certain bias, prejudice, racist and of course discriminatory remarks or actions from others who feel they are better, some people much more than others. In today’s society racism is not accepted by the standard in which we live, but it is reinforced within our founding principles. White Americans were nurtured on hatred for a person with darker skin color or obvious differences, there is a deep divide in-between us as humans, which has been fueled with anger, murder and deception. Thankfully times have changed and so have the ways we treat each other, but even still there is always going to be some

When the women raised her hand to show she was a doctor she was told by a flight attendant “Oh, no, sweetie, put your hand down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel; we don't have time to talk to you." which was completely biased and only based on the way the women looked. The women’s name was Tamika Cross a California-based pediatrician, who had just started supervising interns at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. A fellow passenger aboard the delta airline, she was on, had become unconscious and unsure what to do, flight attendants asked if there was a doctor on board the plane. After Cross was denied access to help the passenger, as well as criticized, an older white gentlemen raised his hand and exclaimed he too was a doctor. After creolization Cross was later asked to help and was offered “skymiles” as a form of apology from the attendant who had said those discriminating remarks to