"Avoiding a confrontation"

[Theophylact]

by accommodating racism.

For several days in early September, supervisors at Abington Memorial Hospital told African American employees to stay out of a patient's room after a man ordered that no blacks assist in the delivery of his child.

Despite a hospital policy stating that "care will be provided on a nondiscriminatory basis," maternity ward staffers accommodated the man's wishes.

The decision offended many employees and prompted hospital president Richard L. Jones Jr. to issue a statement calling the situation "morally reprehensible."

Hospital vice president Meg McGoldrick said the problems began when a pregnant woman's husband insisted that only white employees could enter his wife's room.

"The staff informed our African American employees that there was a volatile situation, and they suggested that they not interact with the family," she said. "In some cases, they actually told employees that they probably ought not to go into the room."

This is disgraceful.

And who wants to give odds the hospital gets flack for it somehow?

[crouse]

This is disgraceful.

Yes it is.....
(see we do agree sometimes)

[M_Six]

And who wants to give odds the hospital gets flack for it somehow?

And why shouldn't they? They deserve a barrage of flack.

Sadly, that guy's kid is going to be a racist, too.

They deserve flack because some ingrate bigot wouldn't let black people in his room? HTF is that their fault?

[crouse]

Originally posted by Whir
They deserve flack because some ingrate bigot wouldn't let black people in his room? HTF is that their fault?

Because someone should have told the ingrate bigot that HE didn't have the right to dictate policy, and that if he didn't like it he could take his wife somewhere else.

Kind of like when someone told me they didn't have to follow my stores policy, I said " Your right, you don't, the next store is 5 miles thatway"

[M_Six]

They deserve flack for bowing down to his despicable bigotry. It should have been, "you don't like non-whites in your room, then go elsewhere." Going along with this pig's bigotry was inexcusable.

That's HTF it's their fault.

And throw a woman in labor out on the street?

What's better for the hospital, dealing with it and getting the woman taken care of, or ending up on the end of some stupid lawsuit? Or worse, the idiot pulling his wife out of the hospital and trying to take her somewhere else, or getting violent and assaulting the nurses?

Man, I've got to wonder if people think about what can happen when you do something, or if they just think that you have to do it because it's the 'right' thing to do.

[crouse]

Whir --- the article said "For several days" , hence I percieved no immediate danger to her being moved.

[J-Excel]

It would have been funny if the kid were born half-black.