The Resource Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine, Damon Tweedy, M.D
Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine, Damon Tweedy, M.D
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- Summary
- "When Damon Tweedy first enters the halls of Duke University Medical School on a full scholarship, 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. When one of his first professors mistakes him for a maintenance worker, it is a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his early career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than whites." In riveting, honest prose, 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 elements take on greater meaning when Tweedy finds himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and compassionate book, Tweedy deftly 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."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Contents
-
- Disparities
- Barriers
- Perseverance
- Isbn
- 9781250044631
- Label
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Title
- Black man in a white coat
- Title remainder
- a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Statement of responsibility
- Damon Tweedy, M.D
- Title variation
- Black man in a white coat
- Title variation remainder
- a doctors reflections on race and medicine
- Subject
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- Tweedy, Damon -- Health
- Physicians (General practice) -- North Carolina -- Biography
- trueRacism
- trueAfrican American physicians
- African American physicians -- North Carolina -- Biography
- trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Discrimination in medical care -- North Carolina
- truePhysicians
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "When Damon Tweedy first enters the halls of Duke University Medical School on a full scholarship, 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. When one of his first professors mistakes him for a maintenance worker, it is a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his early career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, "More common in blacks than whites." In riveting, honest prose, 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 elements take on greater meaning when Tweedy finds himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and compassionate book, Tweedy deftly 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."--
- Award
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- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2015.
- Library Journal Best Books, 2015.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10416108
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tweedy, Damon
- Dewey number
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- 610.92
- B
- Illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- R154.T84
- LC item number
- A3 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Tweedy, Damon
- African American physicians
- Physicians (General practice)
- Discrimination in medical care
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a doctor's reflections on race and medicine
- Label
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine, Damon Tweedy, M.D
- Bibliography note
- Includes bilbiographical references (pages 289-291)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Disparities -- Barriers -- Perseverance
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250044631
- Lccn
- 2015018599
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- portrait
- System control number
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- 886486049
- (OCoLC)886486049
- Label
- Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine, Damon Tweedy, M.D
- Bibliography note
- Includes bilbiographical references (pages 289-291)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Disparities -- Barriers -- Perseverance
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 294 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250044631
- Lccn
- 2015018599
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- portrait
- System control number
-
- 886486049
- (OCoLC)886486049
Subject
- Tweedy, Damon -- Health
- Physicians (General practice) -- North Carolina -- Biography
- trueRacism
- trueAfrican American physicians
- African American physicians -- North Carolina -- Biography
- trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Discrimination in medical care -- North Carolina
- truePhysicians
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- trueLibrary Journal Best Books: 2015
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Health & Medicine Books: 2015
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