Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provide." The N.M.A. had won a different sort of recognition earlier in the week simply by meeting in Houston, where its presence at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, and even in its pool, elevated some eyebrows. "I don't know what the whites are scared of," said one Negro doctor. "These are their kind of people. There are more Toms here than on a turkey farm...
Culture Block. For the Negro doctor in the U.S. today, this is a pinprick hardly worth remarking. He bears the scars of many deeper cuts. He is accustomed to being rebuffed by medical schools, by medical colleagues (especially hospital staff members and administrators), by medical societies, by white patients-and even by black patients, many of whom think a Negro doctor is good enough for their sniffles but not for their major complaints. The cumulative effect is that the number of black doctors, relative to the Negro population, is declining. The nation has only 7,000 Negro physicians. If there...
...loan presented Smith with a crisis of conscience. By taking it, he was yielding to the system that he detests. "But," he says, "if I hadn't taken it, I wouldn't be a doctor today and wouldn't be serving the Negroes of Mississippi." Serving them he is, in the heart of Jackson's Negro community of about 60,000, at an average rate of 40 patients a day. Most practitioners consider 20 patients a day a heavy load. "When you see 40," says Smith, "you obviously can't dispense the kind of medical...
...Boston Movement Center in Chicago will have a 24-hour-a-day doctor on hand, Miss Erenstein said, and will be able to coordinate legal aid. It will plan certain demonstrations, such as a support demonstration for striking telephone workers in Chicago...