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Legacy : A Black Physician Reckons With Racism In Medicine

Uche Blackstock

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Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uch? Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives. What Dr. Uch? Blackstock did not understand as a child?or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother?s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school?were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face.

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Author Uche Blackstock
Publisher Viking
Language English
Binding Type Paper Back
Non Fiction Health & Fitness
ISBN13 9780593491287
SKU BK 0188313

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