Earlier this week, Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford was on a Delta flight from Indianapolis to Boston when she noticed something was wrong with the passenger sitting next to her. Given that she is, you know, a doctor and all, she started to help the person—but for some reason, the flight attendants onboard apparently thought there was something suspicious about that.
According to the New York Times, a stewardess came over and asked her if she was a doctor. Stanford said that, yes, she was—she's a registered physician in Massachusetts—and she handed the woman her medical license, unprompted. She told the Times that she'd made a habit of carrying it with her after reading about Dr. Tamika Cross, a black physician who was asked for her credentials while trying to assist a passenger on another Delta flight back in 2016.
According to Stanford, yet another flight attendant then came over and asked to see her medical license, which she gave her. Apparently satisfied, the attendant left—only to come back with the first attendant in tow. They both started questioning Stanford. "Are you a head doctor?" one asked. "Are you actually an MD?"
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