Nationwide — Shay Taylor, a 32-year-old African American woman from New Haven, Connecticut, once cleaned floors at Yale New Haven Hospital. Now, after years of schooling and hard work, she’s returning to the same hospital as a doctor.
Taylor had always excelled in school, finishing in the top 10 percent at Wilbur Cross High School. But without family guidance on college or financial aid, she went straight to work after graduating in 2010. At 18, she became a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital, cleaning patient rooms, offices, and psychiatric units.
Her life changed when her mother suffered severe lung damage after a house fire. Doctors repeatedly dismissed her mother’s symptoms as psychological. Frustrated, Taylor reached out to the hospital’s chief executive, explaining her mother’s struggles. Within days, her mother was connected to a new medical team and diagnosed with vocal cord dysfunction, a rare condition previously overlooked Read From Source/Original…