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In Los Angeles during the summer of 1955, Doctor Foster had enough patients to secure admitting privileges at a hospital; however, it was not near Cedars Sinai or the UCLA Medical Center. The hospital was near his office and was called Metropolitan Hospital (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309). The majority of the patients were of color, but the hospital doctors were white, with the very few exceptions, Doctor Foster was one of them (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309).
Doctor Foster dreaded Mondays, because the white doctors would boast about their time in Las Vegas and at the casinos. Doctor Foster had a desire to go to Vegas. “He was born for Vegas” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309) and had the monetary means to go, but could not because Las Vegas …show more content…
I also wonder what else Doctor Foster had done or other thoughts or feelings he experienced while in Vegas. This was one of my favorite sections, because I have a personal connection to Las Vegas in that era. After World War II, my great uncle Stanley worked in the casinos. One in particular was the Las Vegas Country Club. He was a card dealer in the back for the celebrities such as the Rat Pack, Don Rickle, and if I remember Gene Kelly. I am an old soul and as a result, I always wonder what it was like to experience Las Vegas during that …show more content…
On page 309, Cedars Sinai is non-profit hospital in Los Angeles founded in 1902 (Cedars Sinai, 2016). The hospital is located on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles, California. The UCLA Medical Center is coined “the best in the west” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). During the 1950s the center’s accomplishments include in 1956, “UCLA surgeons perform the first open-heart surgery in the western United States” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). Also in 1958,”UCLA researchers develop the first techniques for fetal monitoring” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). The hospital Doctor Foster works in is the Metropolitan Hospital, which is located on Twenty-first and Hoover Street. Palm Springs is a city in the Sonoran Desert of southern California. In addition, the first section mentions that Jimmy Gay was from Fordyce Arkansas, which is located in the south part of
In Los Angeles during the summer of 1955, Doctor Foster had enough patients to secure admitting privileges at a hospital; however, it was not near Cedars Sinai or the UCLA Medical Center. The hospital was near his office and was called Metropolitan Hospital (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309). The majority of the patients were of color, but the hospital doctors were white, with the very few exceptions, Doctor Foster was one of them (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309).
Doctor Foster dreaded Mondays, because the white doctors would boast about their time in Las Vegas and at the casinos. Doctor Foster had a desire to go to Vegas. “He was born for Vegas” (Wilkerson, 2010, p. 309) and had the monetary means to go, but could not because Las Vegas …show more content…
I also wonder what else Doctor Foster had done or other thoughts or feelings he experienced while in Vegas. This was one of my favorite sections, because I have a personal connection to Las Vegas in that era. After World War II, my great uncle Stanley worked in the casinos. One in particular was the Las Vegas Country Club. He was a card dealer in the back for the celebrities such as the Rat Pack, Don Rickle, and if I remember Gene Kelly. I am an old soul and as a result, I always wonder what it was like to experience Las Vegas during that …show more content…
On page 309, Cedars Sinai is non-profit hospital in Los Angeles founded in 1902 (Cedars Sinai, 2016). The hospital is located on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles, California. The UCLA Medical Center is coined “the best in the west” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). During the 1950s the center’s accomplishments include in 1956, “UCLA surgeons perform the first open-heart surgery in the western United States” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). Also in 1958,”UCLA researchers develop the first techniques for fetal monitoring” (UCLA Healthcare, 2005). The hospital Doctor Foster works in is the Metropolitan Hospital, which is located on Twenty-first and Hoover Street. Palm Springs is a city in the Sonoran Desert of southern California. In addition, the first section mentions that Jimmy Gay was from Fordyce Arkansas, which is located in the south part of