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Author Blackstock, Uché, author.

Title Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism in medicine / Uché Blackstock, MD.

Publication Info. [New York] : Viking, [2024]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - New Materials  610.92 BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - New Materials  610.92 BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  B BLACKSTOCK UCHE    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - New Materials  B BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - New Materials  610.92 BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  B BLACKSTOCK, UCHE    Recently Returned
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - New Materials  610.92 BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Biography  B-BLACKSTOCK BLA    DUE 05-01-24
 New Britain, Main Library - New Materials  610.92 BLA    DUE 04-26-24
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - New Materials  362.1089 BLACKSTOCK    Check Shelf

Description 294 pages ; illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Summary Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294).
Contents Part I. Where it begins -- The original Dr. Blackstock ; Something wrong ; Everything we lost ; All the things they didn't teach me ; Misdiagnosed ; Part II. Opening my eyes -- Homecoming ; Three patients ; A tale of two emergency rooms ; Motherhood ; Diversity and exclusion ; Part III. Unbound -- Truth to power ; All the patients look like us ; Where I'm supposed to be ; A better way ; The way forward: actions speak louder than words.
Subject Blackstock, Uché.
Racism in medicine -- History.
Women physicians -- Biography.
Women in medicine -- History.
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080104
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780593491287 (hardcover)
0593491289 (hardcover)
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