Doctor Refuses to Treat Black Girl Because He Thinks They Don’t Have Money to Pay — When Her Father Arrives, He Directly Loses His Job.
The emergency ward at St. Mary’s Hospital was unusually still that Tuesday morning. Only the faint buzz of the fluorescent lights filled the air as a twelve-year-old Black girl, Ava Thompson, walked in clutching her stomach. Her face was pale, her movements weak, her breaths shallow. Beside her was her aunt, Carla Williams, who had