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Back in the "old days"...
The old physicians and dentists, like Phylicia Rashad's and Debbie Allen's father, said it was hard to give the best of care to patients because due to segregation, black patients could not be seen in "any" hospital.
Their father was a dentist though... So, I gather that in a dental emergency, like teeth getting knocked out, etc. treatment options at that time were poor...
Also, access to the latest laboratory tests and equipment were missing. So if someone needed an X-ray due to a broken leg, etc., they could not be seen at a segregated hospital even though the Black attending physician did rounds that morning on patients...
They did not say "specifics" to me, I overheard them because, well, I was a precocious girl at the time... But what I surmised is seeing patients without support of the greater healthcare community is useless. And this was in early 1980's...
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