{"id":13104,"date":"2012-03-01T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:21:35","slug":"transplant-surgeon-works-to-improve-african-americans%e2%80%99-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13104","title":{"rendered":"Transplant Surgeon Works To Improve African Americans\u2019 Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Velma Scantlebury<\/strong> is working to increase the number of minorities who are organ donors and to bring more minorities into the field of organ transplant surgery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scantlebury<\/strong>, the first Black woman to become a transplant surgeon in this country, was headed in to surgery with a patient whom she had never met. Because of the emergency nature of transplant surgery, a patient\u2019s regular doctor may not be the one performing the transplant. The patient first noted that<strong> Scantlebury<\/strong> was a woman. Next, he noted that she was Black.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, please, please don\u2019t kill me!\u201d The frightened patient said, \u201cI have a young daughter,\u201d <strong>Scantlebury<\/strong> recounted to a group of young women during a summer program.<\/p>\n<p>As the first Black female transplant surgeon, <strong>Scantlebury<\/strong> is used to odd questions. Still, she has also been incredibly successful in her career, performing more than 200 live donor kidney transplants. Now, <strong>Scantlebury<\/strong> is out to bring more minorities to the field, but also looks to increase the number of minorities who are organ donors.<\/p>\n<p>Minorities make up 54 percent of those on the organ transplant list but [are] only 33 percent of those who receive transplant surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Velma Scantlebury is working to increase the number of minorities who are organ donors and to bring more minorities into the field of organ transplant surgery. Scantlebury, the first Black woman to become a transplant surgeon in this country, was headed in to surgery with a patient whom she had never met. Because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}