Delta accused of 'blatant discrimination' by black doctor after incident on flight

Sam Levin in San Francisco
Thursday 13 October 2016 20.10 BST

A black female doctor has accused Delta Airlines of “blatant discrimination” after a flight attendant allegedly refused to believe that she was a physician and blocked her from helping a sick passenger.

Tamika Cross, a resident OB-GYN physician at the University of Texas-Houston, wrote in a viral Facebook post that on a recent flight from Detroit to Minneapolis, she tried to help an unresponsive man, but a flight attendant repeatedly blocked her and questioned her credentials.

Cross wrote that even after officials on the flight requested help from physicians on board, a flight attendant allegedly told her: “oh no sweetie put ur hand down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel, we don’t have time to talk to you.”

When a white man approached and said he was a physician, the flight attendant allegedly told Cross, “Thanks for your help but he can help us.”

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