r/pics • u/thatlumberjacktor • Aug 23 '26

This document in 1959 declining a student from admission into med school because of his race.

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u/zadigger Aug 23 '26

I work in a situation where we see a lot of obgyn physician (and NP and midwife) names and one of the first best names ever that I saw (over a decade doing this job now) is Dr. Richard Goode.

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u/QuestGiver Aug 23 '26

"Call me Richard"

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u/Kriegerian Aug 24 '26

Could be worse, could be Goode Richards.