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Legacy

A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

by Uché Blackstock, MD
Uché Blackstock, MD
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTUAL PEOPLE IN GLOBAL HEALTH
“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence
One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year
“Legacy is both a compelling memoir and an edifying analysis of the inequities in the way we deliver healthcare in America. Uché Blackstock is a force of nature.” —Abraham Verghese, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Covenant of Water
“[An] extraordinary family story.” —Dr. Damon Tweedy, The New York Times Book Review
“This book should be required reading for all medical students.” —Gayle King, CBS Mornings
The rousing, captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, it never occurred to Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, that they would be anything but physicians. In the 1980s, their mother headed an organization of Black women physicians, and for years the girls watched these fiercely intelligent women in white coats tend to their patients and neighbors, host community health fairs, cure ills, and save lives.
What Dr. Uché Blackstock did not understand as a child—or learn about at Harvard Medical School, where she and her sister had followed in their mother’s footsteps, making them the first Black mother-daughter legacies from the school—were the profound and long-standing systemic inequities that mean just 2 percent of all U.S. physicians today are Black women; the racist practices and policies that ensure Black Americans have far worse health outcomes than any other group in the country; and the flawed system that endangers the well-being of communities like theirs. As an ER physician, and later as a professor in academic medicine, Dr. Blackstock became profoundly aware of the systemic barriers that Black patients and physicians continue to face.
Legacy is a journey through the critical intersection of racism and healthcare. At once a searing indictment of our healthcare system, a generational family memoir, and a call to action, Legacy is Dr. Blackstock’s odyssey from child to medical student to practicing physician—to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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    January 23, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593822326
      • File size: 233417 KB
      • Duration: 08:06:17

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      May 31, 2024

      Physician and healthcare advocate Blackstock debuts with a memoir blending personal anecdotes and insights into racial injustices in the medical field. Narrating her own book with soft-spoken yet galvanizing confidence, she shares her life story, beginning with her upbringing in the Bronx, where she was raised by her mother, a pioneering Black physician who inspired the author and her twin sister to become doctors. Blackstock's experiences as both patient and practitioner helped her to recognize the systemic inequities built into the healthcare field, prompting her to found Advancing Health Equity, an organization dedicated to improving care and reducing racial healthcare inequities. Her narration is most impactful when her professional knowledge intersects with her personal life. Whether she is describing being mistreated at urgent care while a Harvard student, listening to her barber's concerns about the COVID vaccine, or her mother's fatal illness, her well-chosen vignettes remind listeners that speaking up can be a matter of life or death. Blackstock's condemnation of medical racism is delivered with clear-eyed urgency and thoughtfulness. VERDICT From start to finish, this is an excellently executed audio primer on the devastating consequences of structural injustices and the importance of enacting better care for people most in need.--Lizzie Nolan

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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