Daily News | How America’s first medical city birthed a racist maternal care system
America’s first maternity wards were in Philadelphia — a lesser known fact about the city that birthed American democracy, and the nation’s first hospital and medical school.
The surgery was performed by William H. Parish, who later recounted details of the birth to the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society where he noted Scott’s race, the conditions of her home, and his judgment of her intelligence. He also gifted the society her pelvic bones to study and display. Scott was known to Philadelphia doctors who used her case to advocate for cesareans as a lifesaving intervention, though doctors chose to not perform the surgery on her.
Armed Black Philadelphians began guarding the cemetery and, in one instance, engaged his team and repatriated a stolen corpse. While an attending physician at the Almshouse, a hospital for the indigent, Shippen also stole the bodies of dead patients. Disparities between Black and white patients that continue today began early — as early as the 18th century when Pennsylvania Hospital began operating and when hospital managers charged Black patients more than white patients, for example.
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