Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.

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Legacy: a Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine.

March 6, 2024

Blackstock U. New York, NY: Viking; 2024. ISBN: 9780593491287.

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The history of systemic racism is emerging to motivate health care equity and safety efforts. This memoir draws from a Black woman's experience as both a clinician and a patient to examine failures due to embedded system flaws that enable unequal care while serving as a call for change.

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