Discussion Date: September 28, 2023
Prior to each discussion, our office holds a random drawing to give away 5 free copies of the upcoming selection. You are encouraged to attend even if you do not have the opportunity to finish the book prior to the discussion. The giveaway winners will be emailed August 24th, 2023. Please register for the discussion.
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.”
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