Dr. Seymour Weaver
Dr. Seymour Weaver grew up in Houston Texas. When it came time for him to go to school he chose a school in New York, Rensilier College, in New York. While at Rensilier he became involved with a group of pre-med students supervised by a faculty member that provided free screenings for sickle cell anemia to the public. He remembers that despite large snowfalls that many people still came out to be tested to see if they were carriers of the disease.
Dr. Weaver began Baylor Medical School in 1969, Baylor had admitted its first black student in 1969, when Dr. Weaver attended he was one of only thirteen African Americans enrolled in the medical school that year. While at Baylor he discovered an interest in dermatology and made that his specialty. His internship was in Los Angeles’ Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital and graduated in 1978, and eventually set up a private practice in Houston.
Like many other doctors, Dr. Weaver had a negative experience when dealing with managed care in his practice. At one point he had employed three people just to handle the insurance paperwork that had arisen from managed care. Dr. Weaver recalled that one day while walking down the hall of his office he had heard a recording over the phone stating that the company could not verify coverage of his patient but that they could not guarantee payment. Shortly after that, he discontinued accepting insurance from patients.
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