A doctor says that agents of the republic's airline have accused him of being stolen

A black doctor on a flight with Republic Airlines, a Delta Connection carrier between Indianapolis and Boston on Tuesday, claims that the flight crew presented him with a racial profile while he was on the run. she was trying to help another passenger victim of a medical episode.

Fatima Cody Stanford, a physician and educator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was sitting next to a woman on the plane who had begun to convulse and hyperventilate , reported the Boston Globe.

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Stanford stated that she had immediately started trying to help the passenger, when she had been interviewed by a flight attendant about her medical credentials.

Stanford confided that she had given her medical certificate to the switchboard operator and that she was then asked: "So, you are not a chief doctor?".

According to Stanford, another air hostess then asked her to prove that she was a doctor – a claim against Delta's non-authentication policy put in place by the airline in 2016, after A black doctor was not allowed to assist a distressed passenger because the flight attendant would not have thought he was a doctor.

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Stanford said the second flight attendant had asked, "This is your license?" Before going to the back of the plane.

The flight attendants did not stop Stanford from helping the woman, who said she had a panic attack and felt claustrophobic, but Stanford felt their repeated questions about her medical history were "100 per cent % on racism.

"@Delta, I am very disappointed that your policies on #Diversity have not led to any change. As a #blackwoman doctor who showed my #medical license to help a passenger on board a DL5935, your #flight waiter still did not believe that I was a doctor #. @DrSinhaEsq @DrKathyHughes, "she writes on Twitter.

Delta responded to Stanford on Twitter apologetically for the incident – an answer that the doctor described as "disappointing".

In a statement, Delta told Fox News that the airline was grateful for Stanford's actions.

"We thank Dr. Stanford for his medical assistance aboard Republic Flight 5935 IND-BOS and we regret any misunderstanding that occurred during his exchange with the flight crew."

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According to the Boston Globe, the airline responded to Stanford to apologize again for the actions of the flight attendant.

"Please accept our apologies for the events you have described. We are grateful to our customers who are interested in kindness and care and are committed to helping customers in need. The experiences you described do not reflect Delta's culture or the values ​​our employees experience every day. "