INTOLERANT * -PERPETUAL- INSTINCTIVELY : PRECIS

Last week - Historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder spoke to CBS 's Matt Galloway in Vancouver. The conversation available online is mostly about his works.

But what really stumped me was an anecdote from his own life. When his appendix burst, he was misdiagnosed, which led to sepsis, a life threatening situation.

While he was admitted to the ICU, a physician friend stayed with him. But instead of improvement, it worsened it because the physician-friend was black, and Dr Synder noticed the emergency staff instinctively made choices quite opposite to her instructions.

Just because a doctor was black, her sound medical advice could be disregarded leading to the patent's life-and-death struggle.

The World Students Society thanks Farrukh Khan Pitafi.