Black Doctors Consortium Founder Serves Vulnerable Communities

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

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When the pandemic hit, Dr. Ala Stanford set up shop in parking lots, churches and mosques where she provided tests and vaccines to underserved Philadelphia communities like the one she grew up in.

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0:17.9	This is Fresh Air.
0:18.9	I'm Sambrigger sitting in for Terry Gross.
0:22.0	Our guest today, Dr. Ailaa Stamford, has done life saving work in the
0:25.3	operating room and on the streets of Philadelphia, where she grew up. As a pediatric surgeon,
0:31.2	she performed thousands of operations on children, including babies born
0:35.2	prematurely.
0:36.8	Her hours in the operating room took a toll on her hands and a shoulder injury from a car accident
0:42.1	curtailed her work as a surgeon. But she found
0:45.0	another life-saving calling as an activist providing medical help for black people
0:49.7	in underserved Philadelphia neighborhoods.
0:53.0	While hundreds of people were dying during the early stages of the COVID epidemic,
0:57.2	Dr. Stamford founded the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium, which provided COVID
1:02.4	tests and vaccines to tens of thousands of people in
1:05.0	Philadelphia. After COVID became less deadly, the Consortium expanded its services
1:11.0	by setting up clinics in black communities around the city.
1:15.1	Aila Stamford has written a new memoir called Take Care of them Like My Own, Faith, Fortitude,
1:20.7	and a surgeon's fight for health justice. She spoke with Terry earlier this week.
1:25.8	Dr. Aila Stanford, welcome to Fresh Air. It's really an honor to have you on our show. I live in
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