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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Tweedy, Damon, author.     Subjects     Tweedy, Damon -- Health.     African American physicians -- North Carolina -- Biography.     Physicians (General practice) -- North Carolina -- Biography.     Discrimination in medical care -- North Carolina.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tweedy, Damon, author.       by title:      Black man in a white...         MARC Display

Black man in a white coat [electronic resource] : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine / Damon Tweedy, M.D. by Tweedy, Damon, author. New York : Picador, 2015. Subjects Tweedy, Damon -- Health.   African American physicians -- North Carolina -- Biography.   Physicians (General practice) -- North Carolina -- Biography.   Discrimination in medical care -- North Carolina. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=CE3DD8B7-D6F5-40BA-8F63-85E1541B0948 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{CE3DD8B7-D6F5-40BA-8F63-85E1541B0948}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781250044648 (electronic bk.) 1250044642 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than whites." Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of most health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care"--   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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