Chika Stacy Oriuwa
Oct 15, 2021
3 minutes
BY JENNA CALDWELL
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRISTIE VUONG FOR TIME
rotation in the emergency department one day in 2018, wearing her scrubs and stethoscope when she felt a tug on her shirt. It was a patient, who said: “Excuse me. You forgot to clean the vomit off the floor.” Oriuwa is a medical resident, on the path to becoming a psychiatrist, but that path has been strewn with microaggressions like being mistaken for a custodian, and
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