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#1 I was a first-year medical student at Duke. I had spent my first few weeks there expanding my insecurities about my classmates, but I had finally done well on my midterm exams. I was starting to feel comfortable.
#2 At Duke, I was often mistaken for a potential criminal, hired help when I was a paying customer, and most favorably, a budding professional basketball...
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"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school, he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent call to center psychiatry and mental health care into the mainstream of medicine As much as we all might wish that mental health problems, with their elusive causes and unsettling behaviors, simply did not exist, millions of people suffer from them, sometimes to an extreme extent. Many others face addiction to alcohol and other drugs, as overdose and...
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