Black Man in a White Coat, Damon Tweedy
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Black Man in a White Coat
A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

Author: Damon Tweedy

Narrator: Corey Allen

Unabridged: 8 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/08/2015


Synopsis

For readers of Atul Gawande, Sandeep Jauhar, Pauline W. Chen, and Henrietta Lacks. The manuscript is here attached for your review, with our catalog copy below. I have also added some sales points below. One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with racial identity, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans 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. An eye-opening and compelling examination of medicine's continued discomfort with race. Damon Tweedy is unafraid to dissect both the intriguing and disturbing elements of becoming a doctor. Required reading for anyone wishing to understand medicine in America today. - Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine Damon Tweedy eloquently weaves the experiences of an African-American physician with those of African-American patients, carefully documenting how issues of race-too often unspoken-permeate American medicine in this timely and necessary book. - Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, author of The Good Doctor: A Father, A Son and the Evolution of Medical Ethics DAMON TWEEDY, M.D., is a graduate of Duke Medical School and Yale Law School. He is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and staff physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has published articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the Annals of Internal Medicine, as well as in the Raleigh News and Observer and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He lives outside Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. **** 1) PROVOCATIVE LOOK AT HOT TOPICS OF RACE & HEALTH: Tweedy's book falls smack in the middle of the two hot topics leading into the 2016 election. His unique position and experience, as well as his humane and balanced argument for a better standard of care, will prove to be timely and newsworthy. 2) MIX OF NATHAN MCCALL + PAULINE CHEN: This is not a polemic about healthcare, but rather an intimate narrative about one man's struggles and how they relate to the overall portrait of race in America today, similar to Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler. And like Pauline Chen and Atul Gawande, Tweedy takes readers into individual cases and patient histories to bring a more human side to the healthcare debate. 3) COUNTERPOINT TO BEN CARSON: Carson's latest book debuted at #1 on the NYT list and he has established himself as the authority on race and medicine, even as his views grow more conservative and extreme. He is widely thought to be running for the Republican nomination in 2016. Tweedy serves as a more balanced counterpoint to Carson and we will set him up as a more nuanced and trustworthy alternative. 4) WELL-CONNECTED, RESPECTED AUTHOR: Tweedy has published numerous articles in both peer-reviewed medical journals as well as had op-eds appear in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He shares an agent with Pauline Chen, and knows Danielle Ofri and Perri Klass, as well as a large number of notable alumni from Duke University. 5) FREQUENT SPEAKER ON TOUR: Tweedy has given many lectures on race and medicine, as well as the dearth of African-Americans in medical schools and he will be available to tour on these subjects in the months surrounding publication date.

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