Hospital Granted Request 'No Black Nurses' Lawsuit

Bigtexxx rushing to judgment once again.

I will wait for the facts to come out.

 

Racism = using power to enforce prejudice

The Hospital had power
they used that power to enforce this man's prejudice
That is racism.

Then man squeezed the trigger. . . the hospital is the gun . .. the lady is the victim.

Rocket River

 

Good i hope that she gets paid. the fact that the hospital even entertained this notion is disgusting.

You want your baby to be cared for by white nurses then take it to a hospital with only white nurses....and good luck with that.

 

What is more disgusting is they put up a sign

 

So it's ok to be racist at a hospital but not a restaurant? Just because you have a kid doesn't mean you get to dictate your beliefs (especially bigoted ones) to a hospital. Your "my kid my way!" philosophy doesn't make any sense. Suing them isn't unnecessary because it makes a point, you can't come to a public hospital and be racist. Win, lose, or draw with this lawsuit I bet the hospital will never honor a request like this again.

 

Whether she gets compensation or not is irrelevant. Point is the hospital discriminated against her based on her race. Nothing to debate here. This type of Discrimination is not permitted.

 

I see your trying to restore your image.

 

It's not that simple though when you are dealing with medical care. That's the point. There is a reason that hospitals have an ethics specialist or entire department of them.

 

The hospital established a precedence. If a non-white patient makes a request to only have hot filipina nurses attend to him/her and is not granted, that might be grounds for a lawsuit.

 

The hospital should have said 'no' and told him to go somewhere else if he insisted. If it was an emergency situation and the mom needed immediate care the hospital should have provided the care regardless and if the father flipped out he should have been escorted out of the hosp.

The examples are endless (I don't want a black completing my taxes... I don't want a black judge... I don't want a black cop arresting me...) the woman should sue the hospital IMHO.

 

yep segragation was simply about hurt feelings

 

Maybe the head nurse was scared by the swastika.

Perhaps in her mind instead of enforcing racism she was taking action to avoid a problem.

Tough situation to be put in if you're the head nurse and you don't have a backbone to stand up to a weird tatted up dude.

 

The father has a right to request a non-black nurse but the hospital (under U.S. law) does not have the right to oblige the request.

Nurse will win this one easily.

 

I'm pretty certain their ethics department would have responded in this case the same way I did: "uh, no." Just because you have an ethics department for complicated things doesn't mean every decision is complicated.

 

Okay, I don't normally do this, but I gotta call BS on this definition. Too many times, I've seen people insert the word "power" into the definition of racism, usually to support the silly "black people cannot be racist" argument. It's just not accurate.

Racism is:

1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

2: racial prejudice or discrimination

Nowhere does it say "power" in any definition.

Having said that, this guy was an @$$#0le and the hospital should have told him to shove it.

 

It's racism that causes tangible consequences that they're talking about.

 

She's being denied a work assignment and the residual experience; it's every bit as damaging to minority professionals as lost wages, because it sets a precedent for fully ignoring and marginalizing them, and could very effectively minimize their pay and career trajectory over the long term. Also, being singled out and excluded due to one's race is a horrible, horrible feeling; particularly in a stressful work environment such as this.

 

"Racism" is a synonym for prejudice, and if you or me were treated the way you described we would call it "discrimination."

 

This is probably one of the reasons.

It's regrettable that the nurse decided to take this opportunity to try to get a fat paycheck and place this financial burden on her employer, but I suppose the hospital should have known better than to comply to a swastika nutjob and offend a black employee.

 

Maybe because it's her job and she been doing it for 25yrs.