...Everyone called her Nurse Kay. "And her son, Robert Anderson, that we affectionately knew as Bobby Kay, went to Meharry Medical School in Nashville, Tenn., and became an internist," Dr. Hatcher said. Nurse Rosebud Jennings used to live in...

...doctors at a higher rate than white doctors is often preventable. A study tracking black doctors who graduated from Meharry Medical School in 1957 and white doctors from Johns Hopkins Medical School showed that black doctors died at twice the rate of...