Last month’s sudden passing of Dr. Harmon Kelley, a beloved obstetrician and gynecologist, would have been harder for his patients to accept had it not been for his daughter, Dr. Margaret Kelley, also an OB-GYN.
She said their father-daughter partnership was mutually beneficial.Margaret Kelley said his patients praising his bedside manner and compassion come from the words of wisdom he shared with her.Margaret Kelley said her father believed in treating his patients equally, regardless of their race, class or insurance status.“You do what needs to be done,” Margaret Kelley said. “You don’t take those things into account.
She said her father spent a lot of time on the board of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, “making sure to advocate for minority admissions into medical school because he understood that pipeline.” Margaret Kelley also said her father showed her it wasn’t true that patients who are not Black won’t see an African-American physician.Copyright 2023 by KSAT - All rights reserved.Jessie Degollado has been with KSAT since 1984. She is a general assignments reporter who covers a wide variety of stories. Raised in Laredo and as an anchor/reporter at KRGV in the Rio Grande Valley, Jessie is especially familiar with border and immigration issues.
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