My husband had a melanoma (worst kind of skin cancer) on his upper right arm. That meant go to M.D. Anderson cancer center in Houston for that surgery. We went there at least four times before the actual surgery. That is an enormous place and I saw just what you said - except black employees were everywhere in all positions and foreign doctors with accents were also everywhere. Finding a white medical worker wasn't easy.
Then, the day before the surgery, we went to the hotel owned by M.D. Anderson that had a walkway into the hospital. That is a fancy hotel and it was full of Arabs in foreign dress going to M.D. Anderson for cancer. There were very few white Americans staying at that hotel.
Between the hospital and hotel, I felt like I was in a foreign country. So, on the day of the surgery, we go across the walkway to where we are supposed to go. We get told the surgeon we had been going to see and would do the surgery, had become ill during the night and another surgeon would do the surgery.
I felt like a bomb just hit. Then, the person said we were fortunate because now the head of that type surgery was going to do the surgery. Thank God, they weren't going to use the janitor to do the surgery. The new surgeon came in and had studied the case and knew the problem was the area was so large it was “iffy” the skin could be pulled together and sewn. If it couldn't, it meant the raw wound would be open to heal from the inside out and that meant using some kind of machine every day and we would do that at home. I had already had to make arrangements for that machine to be available.
Thank God, the surgeon was able to sew the skin back together. This new surgeon was then our doctor and we never saw the other one again. The new surgeon happened to be a white American and we could actually understand him.
I agree so many of our doctors and anesthesiologists and nurses and etc., are foreign born.
That is because they were at the satellite facilities. 90 percent of my medical team were non-foreign, non-accented, wasps if you will at the Bay Area satellite. That was a few months ago.
An aside, listening to this on Wftv. Based on the commentary they should change their letters to WTFV.