Dr. James Mahoney was a pulmonary expert at Brooklyn's University Hospital, where he was a student and then a doctor for almost 40 years.
Dr. James Mahoney worked at the same Brooklyn hospital for nearly 40 years before he was admitted there with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. He was transferred to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
Dr. Robert F. Foronjy, Mahoney's boss, said the doctor acted fearlessly during his time treating COVID-19 patients, rushing into rooms as monitors sounded off, alerting him a patient was crashing. Story continuesMahoney spent his career serving minorities at his underfunded hospitalAP Photo/Molly Riley
"As a young black man, I looked at this guy and said to myself, 'Twenty years from now I want to be like him,'" Latif A. Salam, a doctor who works in internal medicine at University Hospital, told the Times."When a black medical student, a black resident sees him, he sees a hero. Someone that you can be one day. He's our Jay-Z."
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