American. Black. Doctor: Uncensored
About Marilyn
Marilyn is a native Californian and physician. She went from Southeast San Diego, where despite being told they don’t take Negroes at Stanford, graduated from Stanford and went on to UCSF Medical School. She then completed 2 years of Surgery residency at UCSF, then her Anesthesia residency at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital. After completing her residency, she became an instructor, then Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Favorite Quotes
“If you do not take an interest in your government you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.”
Plato
“Be a voice, not an echo.”
Albert Einstein
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
Sir William Osler
“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
Upon returning to California, she worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She returned to Oakland and practiced at Alta Bates Hospital. While still working at the hospital, she attended UC Berkeley Law School, focusing on constitutional law and administrative law. She interned at the National Health Law Project and practiced insurance and health law. She had an amazing 2012 when she ran for Congress with a message of personal freedom and limited government.
Marilyn teaches classes on the detection of elder abuse and constitutional law for non-lawyers. She is started a blood pressure clinic at her local church’s food bank. She recently returned from El Salvador where, along with delivering medical and educational supplies, she conducted make-shift medical clinics in two rural villages.
Family History
Marilyn comes from a long line of trailblazers. Her grandfather graduated from Ohio State medical school in 1905. He served the public in Lima, Ohio by taking care of the black population and was active in politics and his community. In 1929, he started the Bradfield Center, a place for low-income children of all colors to be fed and mentored. He was so beloved by the town that he was even buried in the white part of the cemetery.
Marilyn’s father who was from Virginia, was a flight surgeon at the Tuskegee Army-Air Corps base. During his general practice we sometimes were paid in tamales – and even one time, a dog. Her mother instilled the spirit of volunteerism – whether the Red Cross or the Urban League. When Marilyn was in high school, her mother began her career as a social worker.
Marilyn’s op-eds have appeared in numerous newspapers and she has made radio appearances across the country.
Justice Scalia 
Elder Abuse Rally
