Title Legacy : a Black physician reckons with racism in medicine / Uché Blackstock, MD.

Publisher	New York]: Viking, 2024
	©2024

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Physical Description	294 pages ; illustration ; 22 cm
Note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-294).
Summary	Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.
Contents	Part I. Where it begins -- The original Dr. Blackstock ; Something wrong -- Everything we lost -- All the things they didn't teach me -- Misdiagnosed -- Part II. Opening my eyes -- Homecoming -- Three patients -- A tale of two emergency rooms -- Motherhood -- Diversity and exclusion -- Part III. Unbound -- Truth to power -- All the patients look like us -- Where I'm supposed to be -- A better way -- The way forward: actions speak louder than words.
Subject	Blackstock, Uché.
	African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	African American physicians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
	Women physicians -- Biography
	Women in medicine -- History
	Racism in medicine -- History.
	Discrimination in medical education -- United States.