Hospitals have a duty to provide top-quality care to patients from all backgrounds. Clinical staff need to be sensitive to various differences that may affect patients’ needs. In particular, hospitals must make sure they’re providing the proper care and support for transgender patients.
Doc wins $7.6M in discrimination case
December 20, 2011
A pathologist was awarded $7.6 million from a federal jury in her suit alleging racial and gender discrimination by her employer.
Aid program won’t pay for man’s breast cancer treatment
August 9, 2011
Being a 26-year-old with breast cancer is unlucky enough. When patient aid programs refuse to help because you’re a man it seems doubly unfair.
Woman claims religious discrimination resulted in refusal of treatment
July 20, 2010
A New Jersey woman claims a hospital denied her treatment because it couldn’t — or wouldn’t — accommodate her religious beliefs as part of her treatment.
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