Richard Perry, who by his own sheer grit built a middle-class life for his family in Compton, was waging battle on two fronts: Fighting against COVID-19, and trying desperately to hold on to everything he had worked for.Īt MLK hospital, amputations are the most common surgical procedures.
His lonely war in Room 533: How a COVID patient fought to keep his life from crumbling “You need to go to the emergency room right now,” he said. She eventually got an appointment with a foot specialist for $50. “You’d be better off if they cut your foot off,” she recalled him saying. When she returned multiple times asking for a referral, the doctor told her she was “nothing but a problem.” When Paschal visited her primary care doctor in Lynwood for her toe pain, he told her she just had a case of athlete’s foot and sent her home with cream. “But that’s what we’ve got in this community.” We wouldn’t live in a community where you couldn’t get an appointment to see your doctor for weeks or months,” she said.
“We wouldn’t live in a community where you couldn’t get urgent care. Nobody, Batchlor said, should have to live in a community “where you couldn’t go to the pharmacy and get the medicines that your doctor prescribed.” are largely getting preventive care that is “separate and unequal.” She said despite the efforts of her privately funded, high-tech hospital, the people of South L.A.
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