Discussion Date: September 28, 2023
12-1 pm CST via Zoom
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy, MD
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.”