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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

Written by:
Damon Tweedy
Narrated by:
Damon Tweedy

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
2
Narrator
1
Release Date
December 17, 2024
Duration
8 hours 42 minutes
Summary
“Hearing Dr. Tweedy speak was less of a lecture and more of an open invitation to engage in a meaningful conversation with a passionate caregiver. Dr. Tweedy’s personal stories prompted a ton of reflection on compassion, mental health, patient-centered care, and our own identity-related biases. These insights are invaluable as we return to our clinical settings, better equipped to care with and for our patients.”
— Megan Walsh, Program Manager DEI, Case Western Reserve University, Medical School

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This program is read by the author.

One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans

When Damon Tweedy begins medical school, 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. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy soon meets a professor who bluntly questions whether he belongs in medical school, a moment that crystallizes the challenges he will face throughout his career. Making matters worse, in lecture after lecture the common refrain for numerous diseases resounds, 'More common in blacks than in whites.'

Black Man in a White Coat examines the complex ways in which both black doctors and patients must navigate the difficult and often contradictory terrain of race and medicine. As Tweedy transforms from student to practicing physician, he discovers how often race influences his encounters with patients. Through their stories, he illustrates the complex social, cultural, and economic factors at the root of many health problems in the black community. These issues take on greater meaning when Tweedy is himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, and deeply empathic book, Tweedy explores the challenges confronting black doctors, and the disproportionate health burdens faced by black patients, ultimately seeking a way forward to better treatment and more compassionate care.

A Macmillan Audio production from Picador.
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I chose this book to read for my social determinants of health class in my doctorate program and I loved it. It’s eye opening and educational. EVERYONE who is going into a healthcare career should read this because it exposes things that school may not prepare you for. This was my first audiobook so I don’t have comparison, but the narrators voice was smooth, clear, and I felt for the most part he had an appropriate tone and expression for the content. The only critique I have is that emotional delivery of some of the patients could’ve been a little better.

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