Healthcare/Hospital Law
Jan. 23, 2009
For Lawyer, Reviving L.A. Hospital Is Personal
When the 25-year-old Washington, D.C. lawyer arrived in a Mississippi town in 1969 to try its only doctor for segregated waiting rooms, she saw a slam dunk case. But when black patients who were barred from the plush "whites only" office refused to testify, Sylvia Drew Ivie had an epiphany.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When the 25-year-old Washington, D.C. lawyer arrived in a Mississippi town in 1969 to try its only doctor for segregated waiting rooms, she saw a slam dunk case. But when black patients who were barred from the plush "whites only" office refused to testify, Sylvia Drew Ivie had an epiphany. "They would rather get the [medical] care - even if it was inferior care - than not get the care," Dre...
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