599 reviews for:

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.56 AVERAGE

rhi_r's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

hiweeboop's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

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This book was engaging, insightful, and full of heart. I especially connected with the author's discussion related to losing her mother to cancer (the same day I lost my own!). 

melermeler's review against another edition

3.5

challenging informative reflective

vukosgrin's review

3.0

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

spicy_g's review against another edition

4.0

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mollygonzally's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

emileejean's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

podanotherjessi's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

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There are a lot of really interesting moments in this memoir, but the whole package rarely landed for me. There were a lot of moments when Blackstock jumps from something she experienced to a wider cultural issue without the facts to make the former clear to the reader. She seems to take for granted that the reader will already agree with her, and while I do, I was hoping for more evidence of the trends she's discussing.
The book shines the most when Blackstock is talking about her own life and her family. The anecdotes about her patients and stories about her mother are the strengths here. I would have loved more focus on that supplemented with statistics and studies.

madame_geneva's review

5.0

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This was such a great book, both fascinating and heartbreaking. Some especially interesting topics were the establishment of emergency medicine as a discipline through black political action in Philadelphia & the history of black women birth workers, and the recent medicalisation of childbirth.

My heart broke at the stories of the sickle cell anaemia patient & young black woman who miscarries. Not to mention the firsthand account of urgent care work during the COVID pandemic. A brilliant read.

uhhmelissuh's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective medium-paced