pregnant woman requests there be no non-white staff in delivery room

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blimey

Thankfully her request was not met. Would be interesting to know here reasons!

(And the cosmetic doc who thought he'd earn ££££££ playing at being a GP managed to kill someone with a massive overdose of opiates, then escaped back to Germany to avoid legal action in the UK - got a slap on the wrist from the German authorities.)

For a lot of people it is a learning, learning experience.

I was told on so many ante-natal appoitments that no-one was available to see me. Turned out there were not any female doctors available to see me.

do you mean the people organising the clinics assumed you'd want to see a female doctor without bothering to ask you?

Correct. My father is a Doctor so I couldn't care less!

This isn't the first time I've heard of this. A few weeks ago there was a program on TV, part of a series about wives, this one was about being the wife of a BNP activist.

One of the wives featured said that her BNP husband had made her put a no 'non-whites' request on her birth plan. I couldn't believe it. I think she said that she was initially given an asian midwife but they changed her for a white midwife (could have not remembered that right though)

this is the documentary.

I think it takes a special kind of idiot to care what colour the people looking after you are. A shame that she couldn't just be left to her own devices, but the baby hadn't done anything wrong.

What a nasty woman. A special kind of idiot is right. What the F is the problem?? These racists think they're superior but they're thick as shite IMO

Gosh. I'm quite shocked that people actually request such a thing.

When I had my son I was in hospital for five days and only came into contact with two white, English-as-a-first-language midwives in that time - one in the delivery suite and one on the maternity ward.
The surgeons who delivered my baby were both Asian women and the midwives were every nationality - Polish/Caribbean/African/Asian/etc etc. It was in South London, in a very racially-mixed area.

Whenever I hear people complaining about "immigrants coming over here and taking our jobs" I always think about the maternity department at St George's and thank my lucky stars those immigrants were there!

What exactly was said? Are you absolutely sure it was a skin colour thing and not a language issue? Perhaps the woman wasn't making that clear - and if she was in labour lets face it who would take time to chose words carefully?