• Only about 2% of orthopaedic surgeons in the United States are African-American.
• Other Black professionals in the specialised field of medicine referred to Phillips as a “unicorn.”
• Dr. Preston Phillips, one of four persons slain in a shooting at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa.

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Dr. Alonzo Sexton described him as a “unicorn.” It takes one to know one; Sexton is also an African-American orthopaedic physician. Only about 600 Black orthopaedic surgeons are among the 30,000 in the United States, accounting for less than 2% of all orthopaedic surgeons.