DAYTON — Medical workers from across the Miami Valley came together to voice their thoughts on racial injustice and creating change, meeting at Courthouse Square Sunday afternoon in downtown Dayton.
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“When you graduate medical school you then take a Hippocratic oath and that oath says that we will do no harm and when you say do no harm, you don’t say ‘I won’t do no harm because you are black or you are white or you are Puerto Rican," Rhea Rowser, MD from Horizons Family Medicine told News Center 7’s Ronnell Hunt.
"It’s do no harm...and if you really mean what you say in that Hippocratic oath and when you wear this white coat then black lives do matter.”
Demonstrators, many seen in white coats and PPE, stood in solidarity, some holding signs and all advocating for change.
“Racism is alive and well in America. We see it everyday and we know it. So, you have to confront it and I have always been a confrontational kind of person and you are not going to be wondering what I’m thinking. If you don’t tell people in their face what it is, then they get to hide behind it," Kevin J. Watt MD, Asst. Dean at Wright State School of Medicine.
“I think it’s important to be here and I think it’s important to be here and keep these kind of pressures up. This is right now a time that’s unprecedented. Right now I think we are going to have some change in this country and we are going to demand some change.”