Maya told me she was calm. She deals with this once a week. She said, "Sir, you have about 15 minutes before you go into shock. I need to set your leg now. You can request another doctor, but the next surgeon is 40 minutes away." He said, "Then get him. I don't want a woman doing surgery on me, especially not you. Women shouldn't be surgeons, your hands are too shaky. And you people always make it about race." You people. Maya paged the other surgeon - a white male, Dr. Anderson. He was at home. On his way. She stayed in the room monitoring his vitals because she took an oath, even though this man was insulting her while she was trying to save his leg. His wife arrived. His wife BEGGED him. "Honey please let her help you, you're scaring me, please." He yelled at his wife: "Shut up! I'm not letting this little girl experiment on me! If I lose my leg it's because you let her touch me!" The bleeding was getting worse. Maya said his blood pressure was dropping: 90/60, 85/58. She said to him one more time: "Sir, I'm going to lose you if you don't let me put a tourniquet and set this. You will lose this leg. You might die. Please let me help you." He looked her dead in the eye and said: "I said NO. I'd rather die on my own terms than live because a woman like you saved me." So she stepped out and documented: Patient refusing care from attending physician based on gender/race.