Seeing Patients: A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface by Augustus A. White III, David Chanoff

Seeing Patients: A Surgeon's Story of Race and Medical Bias, With a New Preface

Augustus A. White III, David Chanoff

336 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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. S...

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