Purchase
Black Man in a White Coat
Damon Tweedy
A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Picador
September 2015
On Sale: September 8, 2015
ISBN: 1250044634
EAN: 9781250044631
Kindle: B00ME1X1W2
Hardcover / e-Book
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction Memoir
One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his
experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health
problems of black Americans When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a
bright future where his segregated, working-class background
will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he
has joined a new world where race is front and center. The
recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black
student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who
bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a
moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face
throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture
after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases
resounds, "More common in blacks than whites." Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways
in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the
difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and
medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing
physician, he discovers how often race influences his
encounters with patients. Through their stories, he
illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic
factors at the root of most health problems in the black
community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy
is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common
among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply
empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting
black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens
faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to
better treatment and more compassionate care.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2024 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy