n.Dr. Drew’s death is a confusing situation. Love’s book tried to set the record straight about Drew's death. In 1950, Drew died after sustaining major injuries in a car crash. It was believed by many that the accident occurred close to a whites-only hospital that refused to treat him, but Love's book, One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles Drew, refutes this account. The story does an injustice to the men and women who worked feverishly to save his life--including the black surgeon who worked on him. Drew died because of the severity of his injuries. Love notes that civil rights leaders such as Dick Gregory used the apocryphal Drew story in the 1960s to dramatize the lack of health services available to black Americans. The story even made it into an episode of the TV series "M*A*S*H." Love adds that while Drew didn't die because of a hospital's whites-only practices, others did perish during that period because of such policies. The story was true in a sense, since it makes a meaningful statement about the world Drew lived in. The story still rings true today in the minds of African Americans and AIDS and organ donation. Black people still feel that they may not receive the proper treatment for their medical problems. It is a trend that hopefully will get better and better with each generation....
