A surgeon has sued Grady Memorial Hospital, accusing hospital executives of suspending his staff privileges after he complained that Grady favored white doctors from Emory University over African-American doctors from Morehouse School of Medicine.

Ronald Moore Jr., an associate professor at Morehouse School of Medicine and chief of the school’s Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, claimed in a 45-page suit that Grady—which contracts with both Emory and Morehouse to supply doctors to staff the public hospital—discriminated against Moore and his African-American colleagues by steering patients to white physicians outside the hospital and by failing to provide operating rooms to African-American doctors.

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