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nyneve 's review for:
Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Blends data and history with a narrative of her life, from growing up surrounded by black female doctors. Her parents intentionally engaged in conversations about race with her growing up. It goes into the functional segregation in demographic locations, how she was ashamed of where she lived but didn't want to be. She grows up to take an internship in her community hospital but burns out and goes somewhere else. She illustrates the difference between two different hospitals, a well-funded one where VIPs frequently gave donations vs an underfunded one that was mostly BIPOC. She talks about racism, problems in her education, and what was left out regarding race, talks about and what medical practices are killing black people (pulse oxes, PFTs, KFTs, high fetal-maternal mortality rate).
Written in a very approachable way, a lot really hit a nerve, like ooof. Goes through BLM, COVID, etc.
Delves into a lot of intersecting factors.
Written in a very approachable way, a lot really hit a nerve, like ooof. Goes through BLM, COVID, etc.
Delves into a lot of intersecting factors.