Friday Nurse Day: Color Her White

Last week we looked at student nurse Lee Barry’s first appearance in Three Nurses #18. Her second appearance I covered in a previous Friday Nurse Day post a while back. I don’t own Three Nurse #20, so we’ll skip ahead to her fourth appearance in Three Nurses #21. Be warned that nursing is only a small part of the story this time, as this is a clearly a message comic, and a rather heavy handed one at that. Still, it’s a good topic to visit, even now — maybe even especially now — fifty-three year later. Friday Nurse Day: Three Nurses #21 “Color Her White” Student nurse Lee Barry is having trouble in nursing school again. Nurse Johnson, one of the instructors, seems to be unfairly picking on her and has even tried to provoke Lee into hitting her. Frustrated, Lee leaves the class only to encounter Dr. Chris Hobart in the hospital hallway, a young intern with whom she’s been flirting. They chat for a while before the hospital Chief of Staff comes around, introducing Dr. Evans, a visiting cardiac surgeon who has developed a new cutting edge surgical technique. Discovering that the esteemed Dr. Evans is black, Chris makes several horribly racist statements and storms away. Unfortunately, he’s not watching where he is going and runs right into a surgical nurse carrying a tray of equipment, and collapses, his heart pierced by a scalpel. As luck would have it, Chris’s life-threatening heart injury is just the sort of ...
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