1977: Black surgeon Julian Mosley, MD, reflects on dealing with prejudice

In Outlook magazine’s Fall 1977 issue, Black surgeon Julian Mosley, MD, reflects on dealing with prejudice throughout his career:

“I’ve learned that certain types of people aren’t worth arguing with. However, it does hurt when good friends who are intelligent make inadvertent remarks which demonstrate that deep down they have an undercoating of ingrained prejudice which will never go away. It surfaces when their guard is down. This has been the most difficult thing to learn to cope with.”

— Julian Mosley, MD

Listen to the Julian C. Mosley, Jr. oral history audio recording via Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University in St. Louis »

Image: Surgeon Julian Mosley, MD, examines a surgical patient, 1977.