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100 1  Tweedy, Damon,|eauthor. 
245 10 Black man in a white coat :|ba doctor's reflections on 
       race and medicine /|cDamon Tweedy, M.D. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPicador,|c2015. 
300    294 pages :|bportrait ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier. 
504    Includes bilbiographical references (pages 289-291). 
505 0  Disparities -- Barriers -- Perseverance. 
520    "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." In riveting, honest 
       prose, 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 most health problems in the black 
       community. These elements take on greater meaning when 
       Tweedy finds himself diagnosed with a chronic disease far 
       more common among black people. In this powerful, moving, 
       and compassionate book, Tweedy deftly 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.- For readers of Atul Gawande, 
       Sandeep Jauhar, Pauline W. Chen, and Henrietta Lacks"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Tweedy, Damon|xHealth. 
650  0 African American physicians|zNorth Carolina|vBiography. 
650  0 Physicians (General practice)|zNorth Carolina|vBiography. 
650  0 Discrimination in medical care|zNorth Carolina. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft