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Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism in medicine / Uché Blackstock, MD. by Blackstock, Uché. Viking, 2024. Call #: 610.92 B631L Subjects Blackstock, Uché.   Blackstock, Uché -- Family.   Women physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Physicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Women physicians -- United States -- Biography.   Physicians -- United States -- Biography.   Racism in medicine.   Discrimination in medical care -- United States.   Blacks -- United States -- Social conditions. ISBN:  9780593491287 (hc) Alternate title:  Black physician reckons with racism in medicine Racism in medicine Description:  294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "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."--Publisher. Genre:  Autobiographies. Memoirs. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 610.92 B631L Adult books Checked out Jun 11, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 610.92 B631L Adult books Checked out Jun 27, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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