Reviews - Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.56 AVERAGE

avrel's review

3.75

challenging reflective medium-paced

andrearuthelyn's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

sarahlaney7's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

This is an important read for any current or future healthcare worker. Listening to the audio was truly a special experience, and I highly recommend it. Dr. Blackstock has a very expressive voice and writing style, and it made the reading experience that much more emotional for me. I learned so much.

leilabouchekouk's review

5.0

Truly one of the best books I have ever read in my life. I related so deeply, empathized, screamed my affirmations aloud, cried, and became inspired to be a better person, daughter, future physician, activist, and mother one day. I am currently an OMS-3 studying for her Step and Level 2 exam, but once I started this book I couldn't put it down and had to make the time necessary for it. You put into words things I have felt but couldn't articulate. You taught me the history of things that are so essential to know, especially as a future physician.

I listened to you speak at the Sisters to Sisters conference, and I left in awe of you. This book left me the same way. Thank you for sharing your journey.

aericsson's review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

lydialovestoread's review

4.0

Uche has a unique perspective on racism in medicine. She is a second generation Black female doctor from Brooklyn, NY, but she has also been a patient, an educator, and a victim of DEI gaslighting. In her memoir she combines historical facts with personal stories of patients, her mother’s early death, and her own hospitalizations. She describes the way she was run out of NYU for becoming “too political” and saying “controversial” things from her position on a DEI board.

She ends up at an urgent care, a huge down grade of prestige and compensation, but finds peace in caring for her neighbors and people who look like her. She eventually stepped out to speak on issues of racism in medicine for her full time job and now does that full time.

She is inspiring and bold, intelligent and vulnerable. I learned about a Black owned birth center in Minneapolis from the book and its incredible decline of preterm births and increase in maternal health. I felt seen when she described the ways she was gagged for talking about race in organizations. Great information.