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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE''S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION A BOOKLIST EDITORS'' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION

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 in whit

Black Man in a White Coat

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 6 September 2016
      ISBN-13 9781250105042
      978-1250105042
      ISBN-10 1250105048
      Also in:
      Autobiography: science, technology and medicine Biography: science, technology and medicine Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE''S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR

      A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION       A BOOKLIST EDITORS'' CHOICE BOOK SELECTION

      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 in whit

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