Seeing Patients: A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New PrefaceAuthor :
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Published : Friday 29 November 2019
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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.
Growing up in Jim Crow-era Tennessee and training and teaching in overwhelmingly white medical institutions, Gus White witnessed firsthand how prejudice works in the world of medicine. While race relations have changed dramatically since then, old ways of thinking die hard. In Seeing Patients Dr. White draws on his experience at Stanford Medical School, in Vietnam, and as the head orthopedic surgeon at a major Harvard teaching hospital to make sense of the unconscious bias that riddles medical care, and to explore how we can do better in a diverse twenty-first-century America. Gus White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul. -Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors Think Seeing Patients is a powerful and extraordinarily important book. -James P. Comer, MD, author of Leave No Child Behind A tour de force-a compelling story about race, health, and conquering inequality in medical care. Growing up in the segregated South, receiving medical training at all-white Stanford, caring for Americans and Vietnamese in Vietnam, Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care... His journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down. -Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate Speed
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