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Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
by Uché Blackstock
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.
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.