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Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine

Blackstock, Uché, author

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\"The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché 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. Uché 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. Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock's odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician-to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
• Subject: Blackstock, Uché. / Blackstock, Uché Family. / African American women physicians New York (State) New York Biography. / African American physicians New York (State) New York Biography. / Women physicians New York (State) New York Biography. / Physicians New York (State) New York Biography. / Racism in medicine United States. / Discrimination in medical education United States. / Discrimination in medical care United States. / Women physicians Biography. / Women in medicine History. / Racism in medicine History. / Racism in medicine. / Systemic Racism / Racism / Sexism / Femmes médecins Biographies. / Femmes en médecine Histoire. / Racisme en médecine Histoire. / Femmes médecins noires américaines New York (État) New York Biographies. / Femmes médecins New York (État) New York Biographies. / Racisme en médecine. / Discrimination dans l'enseignement de la médecine États-Unis. / Discrimination dans les soins médicaux États-Unis. / Médecins noirs américains New York (État) New York Biographies. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients) / MEDICAL / Emergency Medicine. / BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / African American & Black. / African American women physicians Biography. / African Americans Social conditions.
• ISBN: 9780593491287, 0593491289

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