Angela Miller, who is African-American, began the program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 2006.
She encountered problems with her first two clinical supervisors, including “leaving a blood pressure cuff on a patient’s left arm, resulting in the operation being performed on the wrong arm,” according to the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision.
She complained to a program administrator about racial tensions but didn’t file a complaint with the university’s student services office as the administrator recommended.
