charles drew npr

From: da825@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard N Kitchen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Charles Drew story debunked on NPR
Date: 25 Feb 1994 00:09:21 GMT

Last night, National Public Radio did a report on the debunking of the
Doctor Charles Drew legend.

The legend is that Dr. Drew, the developer of blood plasma, was allowed
to bleed to death in an all-white hospital in the South in 1950 because
he was black, and no one would treat him there.

Dr. Drew's daughter, who is a member of the District of Columbia city
council, wrote an article for the Washington Post attempting to debunk
the legend last week, and NPR interviewed her and someone else who is
doing a book on Dr. Drew.

Apparently, Dr. Drew did die from excessive bleeding at a white hospital
in the South, but his white doctors did everything they could do to save
his life.  An attempt was made to ship him to another hospital, but only
because they had better facilities.

Rick "Not an expert on this subject, either" Kitchen


January 25, 1995